Educational film magazine; (January-December 1920)

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Years later we see her as a fortune teller in the circus of Tony, who has sunk into a cruel and drunken brute. He keeps her half "doped" all the time, so that she cannot escape, and she is in a terrible condition. Her only friend is one of the little circus girls and her fiance, the Strong Man. One day her son appears. He has quarreled with his father, and has almost lost courage in his effort tc find a place in the world. She learns of his identity, and gives him the advice he needs, without letting him know who she is, lest she should disgrace him. All is now changed for her. Tony's false promise to her that he would bring her son (her only reason for staying with the circus • can now be ignored. With the help of the The picture is handled somewhat conventionally, but there is some good character work and the theme is so power^'ul that one is carried along well in spite of the minor deficiencies of the picture. "The Fortune Teller." Produced and distributed by Robert- son-Cole. 5 Reels. ^, ^ A NEW POSSIBILITY IN ART STUDY One of the Chester outina; pictures, Some Speed to Su- ruga, offers a new means of studying Japanese art. The •y HE diver's fight with the octopus in "The Girl of the Sea," one of ■^ diving girl. little circus girl, she leaves and settles down in the town. The circus goes up. She becomes held old self once more, and her son, knowing her only as a friend, come.^ to love her dearly. He is now in the confidrncc of tlie governor of the state, and a successful newspaper man. His fiancee, daughter of the governor, also becomes a friend of his mother (afler a slight interlude, the moral of which is that honesty is the best policy. I Then Tony comes back and tries to blackmail and rob the woman he has almost ruined. Bui fate now grows more kind. Norton comes to congratulate the son whom he turned away on his election to a city office. He tells the boy about his mother, and goes away, presumably back to his lonely laboratory. The mother, who was about to go away,^ too, lest her unfortunate past should in some way injure her son's career, is now rewarded for her years of suffer- ing in the love of her son. 18 the underwater thrills in this recent release. Betty Hilburn the average person does not realize how truly a nation's art is an expression of the nation's dailv life. This scenic is an impressively beautiful one, and at once associates itself in one's mind with the familiar Japanese prints. The picture describes a trip in a small boat up a swiftly flowing Japa- nese river, and the sudden turns reveal over and over again a glimpse which seems most familiar. In the distance is Fuji. Between us and that are sharply outlined frees, pale mists, and in the foreground crisply running waves with (Continued on page 19)