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OF THENESRS or m FUffiMAHD PLAYERS QLTi Prince Omar loves Anitia (Miss Kel-lermann) and suffers dire distress to win her. only to kill her by blind fate in battle during her Joan of Arc emulation.Then Omar meets his death, stabbed by the villainess who has poisoned the Sultan. His soul joins that of Anitia on the funeral barge at sea. This is the work of the good fairy who rules the world at last.The large sets used in the picture are impressive, and numbers of men, j children and women have beeen directed effectively by Herbert Brenon.Safely can we stamp “A Daughter of the Gck1s° as the most beautiful work yet come from the studios! Never have we seen a more artistically photographed entertainment. The entertaining is aided most royally by specially composed music, played by a capable band.Keats voiced what “A Daughter of the Gods” is destined to be: “Athing of beauty is a joy forever.” So we have wished this film of Eternal Youth many prosperous new years, and she has given us in return all hopes of happiness.BY ‘'BOB” M’KNIGHT.|F THE late Ponce de Leon were contemporary and local, on seeing “A Daughter of the Gods.” given first light in Chicago last Saturday evening at the Studebaker, be would have cried:“Eureka! I have found the Motion Picture of Eternal Youth. It serves immortality even better than the fountain for which 1 searched so long and vainly. A fountain may run dry, but a motion picture runs on forever.”And the seeker for hidden beauties would have been but expressing the silent verdict of all his fellow-secrs from orchestra pit to gallery summit. Expanding in his enthusiasm, he might have described the elixir asfollows:“Take one view of the picture and you will drop a third of your years; two views and eradicate a half. After the third seeing you will be young enough to play marbles and fly a kite. All subsequent seeings will make you an increasingly happy kidlet.ANNETTE KELLERMANNAscher TheatersANNETTE IS BEAUTY FEATURES° IN the minds of De Leon and his spiritual descendants, the producers of this great little journey into the land of delightful make-believe have accomplished what they set out to do: Make busy adults forget their cares and become as little children.I suppose the chief attraction will be that erivy of milady, Annette Kel-lermann. She unquestionably rivets the eye to her figure whenever the eye can pick ljer figure out of the beauteous bevy.'It is quite fitting that the eye should be so fascinated. But to me Miss Kellermann, attractive and talented as she is, is but an animated beauty spot in this wondrous painting of all outdoors. She is a divinely touched human foreground in a divine background of tropical beauty.It is the same with all the players in “A Daughter of the Gods.” Some have important parts to act against this background. That of William E. Shay as Prince Omar, a rather grim and forbidding youth, is one-; that of Hal de Forest, a realistically sensuous and doddering old Sultan, and the Lee daughters, Jane and Katherine, as the most cunning of baby actresses in fairyland, are others. But large or small, each role tends to blend itself in the sublimity of Nature.Special New Year's Day programs are offered for the photoplay theaters owned and controlled by Ascher Brothers. The theaters and attractions follow:Crawford -r- “The Matrimaniac (Douglas Fairbanks).-* --Frolic—“The House Built on Sand(Lillian Gish).President—“The House Built onSand” (Lillian Gish).Terminal—“Unprotected (BlancheSweet). ... *Oakland Square—“The Woman Alone” (Alice Brady).Calo—“The Black Butterfly” (Olga Petrova).Lakeside—“Three of Many” (Clara Williams).Lane Court—“Miss George Washington (Marguerite Clark).AV.BUFFALO, Dec. 31.—Mischa Elman, the violinist, was best man at the wedding of his sister, Mina Elman, to Dr. M. A. Bernstein of Kenosha her.’ to-night. The wedding was held here because his recent injuries made it impossible for Elman to make the trip to Chicago.MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMJHERE is a simple story, which, briefly stated, is a struggle ’twixt love and hate, familiar enough from another current cinema success.BUY' A DIAMOND and engrave your name indelibly on her heart. It will last forever, the gift of a lifetime. On credit. Loftis Bros. Co., 2nd floor, 108 N. State St.—Advertisement.MOTION PICTURESMOTION PICTURESwGKES, LINiCX SCHAEFER SMat TODAY and Every Day—2D, 50, 7oc. $1. TONITE and Every Nitc—50nd Si. A few choice seats, $1.50 and $2. Sun Mat., 3 P. M.
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Chicago Examiner
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Mon, Jan 01, 1917
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