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Al Capone — Part 30
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RHE ATLANGA
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re Women More Spiritudtly Minded Than Man?)
- ote ete 1 by Talay .
WHERE
to ot
teint yh aoeld® :
Are Women more. spirituaht} minded hace ine ft weg
by? There's new fuel for uryument about tila age-old. qnew- MH
fon in “The Miracle Man,”, Paramonnts muel diecaased pro
‘Uction of the famous acreen classic starting toey et the Pari-
nount Theatre. . ; Cs |
‘Sylvia Sidney, ae the underwold girl who “goes straight” (the fj
ofe first played by Betty Cowpeon) beata her boy friesd te ref-
imation; the sinéerity of “The Micacle Man” is weleomad by
be innate decency In her own soul, and she shoda, quickly and |
qratefuily, the hard shell that wae developed in her cnderwortd
invironment. Hired to masquerade as the aweet, simple niece
of the old man elected for exploitation by the gang, she atoiles
‘\cornfully enough when told to “forget that you ever saw B&
zin bottle.”
home, and enda by wiping off h
wipes off the lipsti
Not so with Chester Morrie,
the clever crook, (played before
py Thomas Meighan) whose re-
action to religion la “How much
will it get me in cold cash?”
Having decided that, rightly
managed, the religious racket
wil) xet him pleoty, Morris
goes about collecting from the;
faithful with neatness and dis-
patch. He ien't bothered by
conscience. reverence. pity, or)
any such weekening virtug
Keen as a razor, modern as &
machine gun, be epplies the ef-;
ficlency of the city crook to!
cashing in on the faith, hope,
and ¢harity of the ama!}town |
healer, When even bia crook
pals desert him, he merely says
in effect “All right. reform if
yoy tike—there Il be that auch;
more money for me”
This looks an if, in self-mm-
provement, the woman wins. A
man chooses money—bia girl
values honesty more! But wait.
These two, crooks and lovera to
gether until this difference sep-
aratea them, are not ajone. If
Miss Sidney is more responsive
to good infiuencea that Mr.
Morris, ahe is influenced by an-
other man—an old man, the
Patriarch who worka, among
other miracles, the miracle of
her redemption. And she is not
the earliest convert, for a crip
pled child {Robert Coogan} is
first to fee] the healing power.
Furthermore, ff Mr. Morris is
hard-boiled, the other crocks—
that thieving beggar, the Frog
(ohn Wray) and the wise
eTracking pickpocket (Ned
Sparks) eren't se difficult to
win over. They follow Miss
Sidney. In the end even the
village mtheiat ({rving Pichefi
joins the faithful.
So, if Miss Sidney gets there
firet, there are strong men to
follow her in the atepa of “The
Miracle Man.” And though*her
conversion is for a time a bar-|
rier to shut out the man she
loves, auch barriers can be
But in the sunty little village she finds bereelf at
er wickedness a8 easily aa she
Miracle Mah” Jeaves this ques-
tion of “Who is noblest among
you” just where we found it.
Ent meanwhile you will have
enjoyed a strange, intensely
moving story of love and re-
demption. If this wonder pic-
ture leaves you untouched, you
must be a tougher customer
than any of the gang who ad-
mit themselves conquered by
the nmarveloda power, and the
suuple kindness, of “The Mir-
acle Man.”
(Continued from page 2)
What do you mean, order baby
chicka and ducks nowt When
you order bebr chicks do they (@
deliver them in egg form by
throwing them, and do you have
to duck?
The idea, bring them my eggs!
T will not do ne such terrible
thing.
Be Meme Te Warts
Jopee—Brown had his tife fn-
sured for a bundred thousang
doflars.
Mrs. J.—I've noticed his wife
has stopped telling him to ‘be
careful when he leaves home. —
~ Lord WHl Provide
Friend — Don't you believe
“the Lord will provide" tf:
Divorce Seeker—I wonldn't be
CAPITOL
! Today
! "Behind
The Mask”
Boris Karloff
Jack Holt
Constance Cammings
Goktcs Yarurt Cracear
Bert Parks
da Pacem
melted even 1 such & stubborn
realist an Mr. Morris
whet acknowledges defeat.
On the whole, you eee, “The
hever
thlain Flees
f=74
We'll Hatch Our Own |i
The kind of hit
_ _ Mt
y | STARTIN
te Might Ha;
Don't
yq
AMI
Fd
SYLVIA SIDNEY
CHESTER MORRIS
HOBART BOSWORTH
IRVING PICHTL
nosiat COODAN
Spencer Tra
Tom
TMEATRA Selected Jor
Now Piaying Fox Mi
that makes the
GEORGIA
the most popular
theatre in town!
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