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Show TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY'' "Little Mary" Pickford makes ;ood better with the photo drama tudiences every time. Apparently lot satisfied with her triumphs in 'The Bishop's Carriage," "Caprice" md "Hearts Adrift" she is now icoring more heavily than ever in he wonderful production of "Tess of .he Storm Country." This remark-ible remark-ible triumph which is a dramatiza-Lion dramatiza-Lion of Grace Miller White's famous story is scheduled to be exhibited at the Elite. Admirers of Miss Pick-ford's Pick-ford's work will rave over the opportunities oppor-tunities here afforded her for emotional emo-tional expression which has never before been equalled in photo drama. Staged amid backgrounds composed of the utter desolation and terrific surf of a beautiful spot on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, and betraying in every sense the master hand of the foremost fore-most director of filmdom. "Tess of the Storm Country" is destined to pack the theatre and send every patron pa-tron home with the sensation of having hav-ing witnessed the triumph of realism and dramatic art. The simple greatness great-ness of the story, its consistent development de-velopment and unflagged action and its powerful dramatic situations, render ren-der the drama particularly adaptable to the screen. The story deals with a wild motherless elf who lives with her father in a hut on the shores of Cayuga Lake. The father is accused of murder and convictd on circumstantial circum-stantial evidence. Tess, alone in the world, has a hard battle. While shielding a fallen girl Tess is discovered dis-covered with the child and at once public opinion commences to prosecute prose-cute her. How the waif triumphs over all to emerge from the ordeal eventually to go into the arms of her waiting lover; how another fisherman fisher-man is found to be the real murder and how her father is pardoned from prison and Tess finds her reward for her faith in love and happiness make the theme of one of the most engaging stories ever so successfully filmed. |