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Show "A Fight to a Finish and the Girl Wins How a Childless Home Is ame( to Life il and Light Grimm' Tl of "Beauty nd the Beait" Becomes Living Reality ai Pictured on the Screen Mra. fl Bronson Howard See "Shenn doah" a a Picture Play. "A Eight to a I inish ( Kalem) Johnson, John-son, the owner of fertile Western acres, secures exclusive control of the water supply by constructing a large dam and refuscj to allow his neighbors irrigation prr ilege. 'fhc owners of adjoining lands make vehement prolett, but to no avail, and Johnson becomes known at "the Water Hog." Grace Lewis purchases the ranch next to Johnson's land, and arriving on the .j Z scene, she finds that the arid tract is practically valueless because of the Water fi Hog's high-handed control. She, too, makes a protest, but can accomplish nothing. The spirited girl determines to show John?on that he has gone too far Un- Wm dcr the cover of darkness, she directs a party of men who destroy the dam They hide on a hill nearby and, heavily & armed, prepare to thwart the efforts of Johnson's men to reconstruct the dam, which ha.s caused all of the trouble. 9 But Johnson i. not to be dealt with so easily. lie declares he will figbt to a finish, and, securing arms for his men, be endeavors to drive Grace's party from the hill. When things are going against Grace, Ralph, Johnson s son. who has recently H returned from college, climbs up the hill In to ovcrpo.vci his father's enemy To his amazement he linds a girl with whom he has already fallen in love, and he hears Grace's idc of the Itorj As a result, he prepares a paper for his father to sign, which forces Johnson to discontinue discon-tinue his interference with the neighbors. neigh-bors. Johnson is not inclined to give up the light, but Ralph's statement that he will tell the whole ranch how one girl held oft the Johnson party, enables tha young man to carry hu point. t 'The House of Pretense" (Reliance) Mr. and Mrs Deacon live together ia pi a beautitul mansion. N'o childish voice & IS ever heard in the big empty halls. In his office. Hcjcii makes a pal of his scrubwoman's little boy and they have a, great game together. Beatrice, op-pressed op-pressed by the loneliness of her home, visits an orphan asylum dailv where she has fallen in love with little Anna, whom he would love- to adopt, but dares not for fear her husband would object. Th little boy's mother dies and the child fi comes to his friend Deacon, who assures the little fellow that "you'll he my boy now." The same day Beatrice brings home Anna. Deacon slips in with Dick and nxes him up so as to make a more favorable impression in Beatrice's eyes His wife, fussing over Anna, hears a knock. As he enters he sees the child close in her arms and slowly thev understand un-derstand each other. He brings forth. II Dick and they clasp hands, and into their hearts conies a real feeling for each' III other for the first time in main- davs. fi Later a happy wife and a straight limbed son watch a bovish lather and i L. wee- daughter play a rather uneven game of ball on the big lawn. ' ' j 1 "Beauty and the Bea it" (Universal)-It (Universal)-It is due to the enterprise of the Universal Univer-sal Film Manufacturing Company and the interest that this concern takes in the entertainment of children that this Korgcous fairy talc will tind a place in v, the motion picture theatres There are I few studios in the world that arc capable capa-ble of presenting the Grimm Brothers' story as gorgeously and convincingly, and in this case, the resources of the Hollywood studios of the Universal 1 1 W est Coast Organization were taxed to their fullness to present the spectacle in an adequate manner. The making of the special costumes, and the building N of the necessary scenery and furniture cost more than three average features. while the entire expenditure, including the hiring of hundreds of extra people for the court and to-n scenes, far exceeded ex-ceeded the S15.0U0 mark. Beautiful blsie Albert plays the part of Beauty and Hampton Del Ruth enacts the role of 'S Prince Charming, who is turned by the witch's hateful spell into a beast, 'from which he is redeemed by the pure love v of the sweet and sympathetic girl. The story closely follows the tale as known to the hundreds of thousands of juvenile juve-nile and mature readers of the Grimm i fairy talc?. A private exhibition of "Shenandoah was recently given at the Kalem Com- - pany s New York offices for Mrs. Bronson Bron-son Howard, widow of the famous play-trright, play-trright, lroni whose wartime classic a. three-part photoplay has been made "It is a great pleasure to have 'Shenandoah presented in so attractive a form, said" Mrs Howard, particularly to the yoimger generation of thc.itrcgocrs who are deriving so much of educational as well as amusement benefit from the motion pictures of our day. Knowing Shenandoah so thoroughly, I have ha4 B Striking demonstration of the possibilities possi-bilities of the photoplay. The Kalem Company has done well to faithfully preserve the various incidents which have thrilled hundreds of audiences and the pu lure portrays many stirrinf scenes which can onlv be referred to m the stage version I wjsh to cxnress my great satisfaction and admiration of V the manner in which the ply ha been produced." k aaaaaTaTsTsTsl |