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Show Ex-"Lifer" Rises to Supreme Heights in Version of "Heliotrope" What would you do to Insure your daughter s happiness? Would you sacrifice your life? That is the question confronting tho chief character in "Heliotrope," tho 'motion picture attraction at the Ai-hambra Ai-hambra theatre today, tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesdn lie is a convict, con-vict, serving a life sentence In the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Ills daughter, who has no seen or heard from either parent since bahyhoodi is engaged to be married to -a very rich young man. Her mother, a thoroughly disreputable woman who scents an opportunity for money, i-planning i-planning to blackmail the girl. When the convict learns of her plans through a letter from a former pal, be is half crazed because ho Is behind bars and cannot prevent bis daughter s life from being ruined. Then through an understanding of the warden and a kind governor, bi li ullowed lils freedom, hut only- on condition con-dition that he will not harm his wife What Is he to do? Seemingly th.-only th.-only way to save his daughter Is to do awa) with his wife; Bui bis pledgv prevents that. It is kill or be killed, reasons the cbnvlct. And so he brings t about that a bullet through "his heart aendR his wife to prison for life and allows his daughter. Innocont of thr fate (JuV threatened her and or his sacrifice, to marry the man of her cholcp. '.'Heliotrope'' Is a rttrtkljifly dramatic stor" by Richard Washburn Child and Is enacted by an excellent cast thai Includes Frederick Burton, Diana Allen Al-len and Julia Swayn,. Gordon George I. Baker directed the picture, which t .1 Cosmopolitan Production relt ed through Kamous PJayers-Lgsk) Corporation. Cor-poration. 00 A Chelsea (England) patient has died In Hanwell Asylum who was sanl there forty-one years ago. His main tenance cost the Chelsea guardians over $6,000. |