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Show Soul of Village Maid Is Theme of 'True Heart Susie" Into the rural village for the setting, set-ting, and into a woman's soul for the theme, David Wark Griffith has gone for the materials of his new rtcraft picture, "True Heart Susie," which ill bo shown at the Alhamba theatre the-atre Sunday. Ho has chosen three characters, typical and definite in tho domestic life of America, familiar to the residents resi-dents in every small place and most large ones. One is that of a lovable, loyal girl, who never has a chance to marry' but one man, and when that man passes her by, ages her soul with tears, and wearies her days with waiting. Another is a oung man who goes to college, returns with comical conceit, con-ceit, the premier of swain3, as serl ous to himself as the measles. And the third is a girl who considers marriage mar-riage never a union of hearts hut a necessary patronape, a wife of subsidy sub-sidy rather than of love. With these persons, Mr Griffith has arranged a story of wondrous charm, piquant in the delightful subtleties of character delineation, a warm, whole-' whole-' come story of love won and love de-I de-I nied. He devotes his deep precep- tion of the infinite varieties of each ; heart, to these threo' young persons, each whetted by nature to realize tho , fullness of life's experiences, yet each I held from doing just what he or she should Lillian Gish appears as the girl who waits, a repressed role which absorbs j tho full power of her acting. Rob-I Rob-I crt Harron, as the boy who becomes a I minister, will remind the world of I some it knows, and gives to it a chuckle never forgotten. Clarine Ses-: Ses-: mour is Introduced as a merry young I milliner from Chicago. rr |