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mian crowd, he fares forth by himself. It is not long before he meets Helen Carew, a woman with a past and without a conscience, who fascinates him.
Eventually Harmon's infuatuation for the other woman becomes known to Naomi. She is heartbroken, particularly when Harmon goes so far as to ask her to divorce him in order that he may marry Helen. This she refuses to do. Helen, anxious to get the man entirely into her clutches, enters into a plot with a crooked detective, whereby Naomi is to be caught in an apparently compromising situation, thus giving her husband grounds for divorce from her. The detective picks up a convict just out of Sing Sing and by means of a decoy message Naomi is inauced to go to a hotel room where the man from Sing Sing is waiting for her, instead of her injured husband as stated in the note. Once the two are in the room together is raided by newspapei reporters.
The husband brings suit for divorce, offering as evidence the stories of the witnesses at the raid and the flashlight photograph. He also asks custody of the child.
Naomi startles judge and spectators when she declares that she should be allowed to keep the child, because Harmon is not its father. The judge, however, suspects that Naomi is sacrificing her reputation in order to keep her baby, and, calling the girl into his private office, he gets the truth from her.
Meantime, there has been an unexpected development in the affairs of Helen. The man from Sing Sing had been her lover before he went, to prison, and ^he is unpleasantly surprised when the detective's use of him brings him again into her life. The ex-convict is in Helen's rooms trying to renew7 their old associations when Harmon comes to see her.
Horrified at the revelation of Helen's true character, Harmon goes out of her life at once and forever and in the course of time succeeds in winning his way back into his home.
Rental, $10.00 per night.
DA-770 to 78 "A Gamble in Souls" Triangle
Featuring Dorothy Dalton and Wm. Desmond The play is the eventful story of a girl and a minister who couldn't understand each other until fate tossed them together in a wilderness. The action opens in the "Barbary Coast" of San Francisco, where the girl, a dance hall habitue, and the evangelist, a young and enthusiastic social worker, first meet. Then it is transplanted to an uninhabited island in the Pacific, where understanding and love eventually dawn.
Miss jDalton is seen as Freda Maxey, one of the pitiful many chained to the standard of the "Barbary Coast" and who models her life according to its code. The role gives her many opportunities. Desmond in the part of Arthur Worden, the evangelist, is declared to give one of the most strongly dramatic characterizations of his career.
Rental, $10.00 per night.
DA-779 to 82 "The Adventurer" Mutual
Featuring Charlie Chaplin. The funniest comedy Charlie Chaplin ever produced.
As an escaped convict, he escapes in excruciatingly funny ways from half a dozen guards attempting his recapture.
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