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Show IS PUPPY' LOVE SWEETEST LOVE? Nobody can denj that while it lasts the youthful emotion scornfully de-Sprlbed de-Sprlbed by old'-r persons as "puppy" i love is i 'great and glorious feelin' " (And win. can say tb;it but for elderly (scorn and heartless rfdlcule "puppy" : love would last forever? Therr is a charm about tho first youthful awakening of loc that is lacking In later affairs, partlv of . ' mi.-,-, because it is the first, and part- I , ly because there is no "taking thought I , for the morrow. ' no worried planning i I for the future, no harassed figuring Up of the probable cost of a matrimonial matrimon-ial venture, no serious looking ahead of any kind It Is enough for th'. (youthful lovers Just to know that they love, that they are "engaged" - s term . particularly thrilling lui usikiIIy .;-Rightfully .;-Rightfully vague, since marriage looms j . . ' If T 1 I I . j Wf iOEET L AVE N DEO.'1 as distant and unreal as death, and boJ lng engaged" means, when the 1 I right down to facts, little more than I being supplied with one partner and one only, for all the parties and picnics pic-nics and evenings as long as the on-gagoment on-gagoment lasts ' It seldom lasts very long, that first Idissy love affair, but there is this about it always and forever 11 remains on" I Of life's sweetest memories. Breathes 1 'there a nuin with soul so dead that he I does not sometimes look back with real yearning to the days of his first boyish love, short-lived, perhaps, but terribly sweet, none the less'' And sural there isn't a voman alive who will not be able to give you the exa t data mi her first, loan experience She will probably laugh over It and declare that it must have been awfully funny, but down deep in her heart she knows that It was sweet, too, and still seems so It Is "pupp" lov with Its strange Shyness, Its foolish raptures, its mad VOWS, and Its dogged loyalty, that mal.es the old play, ' Sweet Lavender.' forever appealing. It la the story of a college boy and Ills landlady's daughter, daugh-ter, youngsters both of them, and lov-ors lov-ors from their first meeting at which Lavender berated the astonished youth like an angry little wet hen. A fiery little pepper i, ox was Lavender, in spite of her gentle name and I'lcin could no more resist her youthful appeal ap-peal than he could have stopped breathing. "Sweet Lavender," the Plnero stage success, has lee, i brought to the screen b Realart as B vehicle for Mary Miles iMinter, youngest of stars, and the role suits her admirably. Under the direction direc-tion of Paul Powell, who directed Mary Pickford In 'Pollyacina." the I Plnero play has been made into ' C2 photo-drama of delightful comedy .1 h Miss Mlnter being surrounded in tho II production hv sm b screen celebrities tj as Harold (i lwln. Milton Sills, Syl- E via Aahton, Jane Kqcklej Theodore II Roberts, Starke Patteson, j. M. iu B mont and others Heuluh Marie DlX I prepared the scenario. The play comes to the Alhambra theatn m ihia clt) today. |