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Show REMARKABLE 'PICTURE 'PIC-TURE OF AMERICAN AMERI-CAN SOCIAL LIFE One of tho most remarkable 'plc- i I tures of contemporaneous American' tlfo, embracing tho dlvorco question and tho moro intlmato phases of marital relations, Is "Old Wives for New," produced by Cecil B. DoMlllo, from" the vnovel by David Graham Phillips, with tho scenario by Jean-le Jean-le Macpherson. It is an Artcraft picture and will be shown at the Lyric Friday and Saturday. x Briefly it takes up the lives of a man and woman who marry young in the heat of youthful passion and i who rue it later when the woman becomes slovenly and obese, while the man gains rather than loses e-ery e-ery way. They are wealthy, but this cannot stay the march of events and .la the end it results In divorce. Another An-other woman, really nobel in all her 'instincts, enters the life of the man, ! (nurses him back to' lite when he Is Injured to the point of death in a .railway accident, and to save whom he takes up with another woman I for whom he feels no love. I nthe end she finds him and com-pels com-pels him to accept her, despite that, I ( in his desire to save her reputatlot ' he tries to resist the love that will i hot be denied. The lives of others ( enter Into the story, which searches the very souls of the characters Involved, In-volved, keenly, incisively, and betrays be-trays the, unrest that gnaws at tho heart of the American social conditions, condi-tions, like a worm at the bud. 1 J MW BHBBHWH |