Show FAIRBANKS ARRING T IN EN THE IH Ml HAlf BREED Another Douglas Fairbanks picture picture- e and one of or the best the Triangle e fa favorite favorite favorite fa- fa has produced thus far Its name is The Halfbreed and and the story is adapted from a a. tale writt written n bY bYone by byone byone one of Americ Americas America's s 's most famous a authors thors ot oL romantic prose and verse vers verse Bret Bret Bret Hare The name of the Harts Hart story Is Inthe Inthe In the Carquinez Woods and it deals with types and incidents of the early days Mays in California as only Bret Hartes Harte's s stories could He knew his country and the tone romances that flowed from his pen h have ve few few equals for heart interest interest interest inter inter- est and strong human appeal in the literature of any country Lo Dorman the central figure of the play is the son of a a. white father anc and an Indian mother The latter killed herself soon after her desertion by the white man and Lo the halfbreed was raised by a kindly old man who lived alone in a little cabin on the edge of the great Carquinez woods One day death claims the halfbreed's protector and just as he is emerging from boyhood boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood into manhood Lo is left to do battle alone with the world As no man mans man's s life can run its course without women so women come coins into the life of Lo One is a white girl blonde cold coW hearted deceitful and seeking Reeking romance with the handsome young man for more mere self Relf gratification The oth other r is an outcast of society liv- liv ing with a brute who ill treats her but eager to bestow her lov and devotion upon some man who w will give live her at least kindness and affection The halfbreed is not left to choose between the women Fast and furious events map out his pathway for him until fate has assorted its playthings and his feet are set on a pathway not of ot his own choosing |