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LEGALWomenRound the well-known form of Annette Kellerman, a dreamer built the | scenario of the most wonderful fairy story that has ever been filmed. From I it William Fox has produced the most I beautiful, thrilling photoplay that has : so far been given in this country. Amazing adventures, wonderful water feats, j all the intrigue of the harem and all the blaze of battle, dll an evening with ] thrills.Engaging the use of $1,000,000, the island of Jamaica, all the pickaninnies of the current generation, and an army of movie actors and skilled mermaids,I; Mr Fox built a magnificent Moorish ; city with the Taj Mahal as the keynote ! of the design, set up various elaborate encampments, diverted a river and built a series of beautiful waterfalls, and brought forth “A Daughter of the Gods.**The net. result, two hours and a half of thrilling films, he has Drought to j Boston and exhibited it lor the first j time last night in the Majestic Theatre I for a large and enthusiastic house, j The audience was adjured at the out-' set, by a sign on the screen, to “become ! children for the time being, in order to enjoy the fascinating fairy story.Behind the story lie the strange laws of the gods, one of which is that two souls once mated are lovers for all time. A more familiar law is the statuteproviding that nothing mortal may re-; main among the mermaids—a law almost axiomatic, one would say, except in the case of Miss Kellerman.New Winter Coats that shotsell for $18.50 marked down,$10. The model pictured is of a fi All Wool Cheviot, warmly linlt; in Black, Navy, Brown and Gre Many other handsome coats to lect from.25 COATS AND SUITS $14.$1 P. N. Corsets...........(J1$1.50 Combinations and Gowns98c Flannelette Gowns 57lt;$1 and $1.50 Waists (slighthsoiled) ,47(39c Percale Aprons, with owithout bibs .......... 29.79c Bungalow Aprons . . . .49lt;$1.50 House Dresses.......98lt;$4 Women’s Sweaters .... $2.9iSouls of the Birds LivedThe fairy of goodness works out provisions for happiness single-handed against t he witch of badness, who has j a whole crew of subwitches, a tremendous volcanic devil, and a quick poison as aids. And the rest is Miss Kellerman, “divinely tail, and most divinely bare, as one writer recently put it.Now Nydia was a most bewitchingchild of 4 or 5— Roman, one would sayfrom the costumes and gestures of herfamily. Her papa brought home acanary in a wicker cage to be her pet—and Nydia left the cage door open. Thebird joined its lover of ages gone in thetreetops, but doom was waiting. Thewitch of badness set the wicked cat to jpounce on the little bird, and Nydia : was too late to rescue it. She se. It j afloat in a little boat on a calm and shoreless sea, where presently its mate 1 came fluttering to die, just like Koko’s j bird. jUnder the laws of the gods, however, i the souls of the birds lived—one to be- , come a young and beautiful man, adrift j in his cockleshell, and the other a won- | derful woman, rising from the sea in 1 a scallop shell like Venus. iThey found themselves on the coast of a wonderful land, ruled by a sensuous Sultan. Long years before his little son had strayed to the edge of the water, set his little boat afloat and drowned. The mermaids found him and made him one of themselves. Little Nydia, too, became a mermaid, andthe water-nymphs delighted to set thechildren together on a ledge awash and play with them thereThe Sultan accepted the young man as Omar, his lost son, grown to manhood. He took him to the wonderful walled city, where Zarrah, the daughter of an Arab sheikh, supplanting the Sultan's favorite wife, was scheming to get control of the old man’s kingdom.The city lay along the water’s edge. At one place, on a rocky point, a lofty tower of punishment stood. At another, the sea-wall overhung the tossing waves. Beyond was a grove above a smooth beach*, while in the other direction cruel ledges and coral rocks stuck their black crests up to shatter the great ocean rollers.Through a tunneled and portcullised gate the Sultan and his new-found son rode into the great square before the palace, and there the people by thousands bowed before the heir to the throne.Your Money BackMY CLOHANOVER AND PCBostonhousePlace.More StockElevatorServicePrivate OfficeTwo Entrance% Temple PlaceandWinter PlaceMerchaOver 3.1Years onTempleplaceLeonaiit ia burned to the ground at the end oi’ , the fighting and the volcanic eruption, j It is Miss Kellerman In her radiant | beauty unadorned that the people want. E And through the story, as one may j imagine, she provides a thrill at every turn. She dives from the tower a hundred feet into raging surf; she tumbles, visibly bound hand and foot, through the rocky waterfalls; she is dashed over and over on the submerged ledge. | until the spectator's own flesh cringes I aat the shock. ‘Naked and beautiful, she roams the pwoods, or frolilt; s with the gnomes Inthe beautiful still pool, and clothed in , cfanciful gauze she dances before the rSultan. , , !At every moment one gasps at her ad- |ventures and thrills at her daring. j aModern Theatre cThe picture features this week at the i Modern Theatre show Lillian Walker!® and Mary Pickford as stars. tMiss Walker as the heroine of ‘‘In-A discretion'’ was a care-free maiden,The conventions of society never both- ciered her one whit. She was a simple, ,] sweet little girl, who trusted every one. i even care-free married men, and her , unrestrained youth grew into Indiscreet ^womanhood. \Thrown into a tragic compromise with j a married man, with whom she plays 3 coquette she reaches the point In her i childish ignorance where the burning . light of experience pierces through her .indiscretion. Played in the chic win- t some way of Miss Walker, the role has ta strong appeal. jOn the same bill is presented foranother week Mary Pickford in The ,Pride of the Clan.*' The demand of spatrons has influenced the managementto extend the engagement of this piece .the extra week. It is the first time in Ithe history of the Modern Theatre that ,the same attraction has been allowed to ^play two consecutive weeks,Washington Theatre JThe photo dramas were included in yesterday* s shows at the Washington Theatre.Dorothy Dalton was the star of Fe- | male of the Species, a Triangle film; j Mr Bushman and Miss Bayne continued their thrilling screen careers in “The Great Secret * and Lou Tellegen was seen as the hero of The Victoria Cross. Thursday, Friday and Saturday the film stories will comprise Truthful Tulliver, featuring W. S. Hart; The Traveling Salesman. with Frank McIntyre as star, and Lass of the Lumberlands/* showing Helen Holmes as the heroine.Old South TheatreFeature pictures were shown yesterday at the Old South Theatre.The three-day photo play is The Heiress at Coffee Dan's, the principalrole being impersonated by Bessie Love. In the third chapter of The Great Secret, new adventures are indulged In by Mr Bushman and Miss Bayne, The last part of the weak Three of Many and The Secret Kingdom will be shown. Vaudeville and comedy filmsare tu the bill*
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