Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-06-06 | Page 8 | Alice Lake, the Great Star, Charming Hit

ALICE LIE, II GREAT mi HUM mi Before a packed house of expectant picture patrons, Alice Lake mado her first appeacance as a star, yesteraay, in tho pictunzatlon of James j. Heme's Kimous comedy drama "Shoro Acres" at the Utah tneatre today. Miss Lako's starring- vehicle Is ono of the best features that has ever appeared' on the screen, tho qualities of the Heme stage play- lending thomseives admirably to the transfer to tho silver-sheet. silver-sheet. "Shore Acres" which first won woiid-wlrjo popularity as a stage play now bids fair to duplicate the success of the drama In celluloid, for the pro-auction pro-auction if from first to last a rattling good picture. Tho story, which is at once so dramatic dra-matic and human, Is that of a stern old farmer on the coast of .Maine, who mortgages his home to. Invest in mining min-ing stock that is. being promoted by one Josiah. Blake, un, unscrupulous man, and then strives- to , force his daughter Into a loveless match with Blahe. when she loves another and a younger man. Sam "Warren l3 the man of her choice, and Sam is a clerk In the employ of Blake. The unscrupulous unscrup-ulous Blake divining (he true reaauu in order to prevent his marrying Helen tho old farmer's daughter. But In tno face of Blake's machinations and or parental, opposition, Helen and sam book passage on a vessel bound down tho coast. "Learning that his disobedient daughter daugh-ter la on board the ship, the father who ia the keeper of the light house, permits tho light to go out, and as a result tho ship goes on the roc.vs.