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One of the best motion picture dramas that has ever been shown in this city will be produced again at the Arcade on Tuesday, May, 12th, when Dion Boucicault’s well known Irish story, “‘The Colleen Bawn,’’ a story that is so representative of life in Ireland that it will live as long as the sons of that un happy land continue to love their fatherland. Literally translated from the Gaelic ‘‘the colleen bawn’’ means the white or blonde maiden, and refers to Eily O’Conner, the heroine of the story. When the Kalem company decided to feature this story in the films it sent a company of actors and photographers to Ireland and the play was reproduced in the localities described in the story and with a faithfulness to detail that makes it doubly interesting. It has literary charm and atmosphere and will be enjoyed as heartily as when it was first shown here, in 1911. The film that will be used is a new duplicate of the one shown here but is fresh and clear and not a worn out film. To add a bit of novelty and make the appeal to Irish blood a little stronger a box of genuine soil from Ireland will be placed at the door and all who like can enjoy the thrill of treading on it. For those who have a bit of imagination the drama is so gripping that it will carry them bodily back to “‘the ould sod’’ and they can see the shimmer of the sunlight on the Lakes of Killarney and smell the peat smoke in the humble cots of the country folk along the rocky coast.
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Attica Ledger Press
Attica, Indiana, US
Fri, May 08, 1914
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