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Show 2-ffEEURAIHA "A BLOT ON 'SCUTCHEON" The photoplay is a good school in which to study human nature. Tho pictures themselves aro a good mirror mir-ror of conditions that aro and wero, and tho audienco a sensitized photo-plate photo-plate that takes evory impression. Two pictures each a highly tragic presentation of llfo In the past are shown, ono at tho Isls, tho other at the Globo this week. "Tho Blot on the "Scutcheon" a two-reel two-reel drama deals with the social sin. The delicate. sensitive, motherless girl Is the victim, but perhaps not moro a victim than her wild Impetuous Impetu-ous boyish lover and her proud lm- iicwuuo hi uun-i , iu uio iionor couo oi that day. Tho same principle holds at the present day in the "unwritten Law," recognized In most courts of law Are thero or arc thero not somo sins that only the forfeit of life can expiate? So keenly Is the spirit of the play felt by tho actors In this drama that ono almost forgets that after all they arc only acting beforo a camera. In the play "Madame do Challant," a perfectly innocent though high high spirited woman is charged with Infidelity which is more than she can enduro. Knowing herself watched sho becomes indifferent and finally reckless. When publlclv denounced, she calls upon her suspected seducer to avenge her. Sho pays the penalty of her alleged crime, and her husband forfeits his life for his unreasoning suspicion, which leads to tho tragic ending. The Insistent demand of tho public for something moro in pictures than tho light childish strics of most photoplays have led to tho presentation presenta-tion of theso dramas, several of which, are worthy to bo classed with "Madame "X" or "The Other Woman." Wom-an." Thoy aro pictures that arouse discussion on the social evils of i" day. |