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By GLADYS BOLLMAN "THE INSIDE OF THE CUP" rHE Inside of the Cup is a refutation of some of the slurring remarks often cast by reformers at the "commercial" producers. It is worthy of the best appreciation. The story, as probably many church people well know, tells of John Rodder who after a while opens his eyes to the fact that he is the blind tool of a group of men who be- lieve in never letting their right hands know what their left hands do. Alison Parr, the daughter of Eldon Parr, who, like the son, has left the parental home because of Parr's injustice to themselves and others, says the word that begins the awakening. Hodder learns that Parr has sent out of town the girl whom his son wished to marry; that he has driven his son away from home by his deception of the girl; that he has evaded his responsibility in a stock proposition and turned away a man in his employ who knows his part in it; that he is responsible for much of the misery in "Dalton Street", the city slum. Hodder is forced to a decision at the time when a crowd of men up in arms because of their oppression threaten him at the very doors of the church. Hodder decides to be "God's man" instead of "Parr's man", and preaches a sermon on Matthew 23. The son returns and the girl he had hoped to marry is brought back to a normal life of happiness. Parr is shot by a man he has wronged and dies forgiven by his children. The acting is sincere and suit- able for this pur- poseful picture. The part of the clergyman, John Hodder, is taken by a man who neither lifts his hands in prayer every other mo- ment nor breaks bis neck trying to show that a clergyman can be "red - blooded". Eldon Parr, the influential and wealthy man who controls the church, is repre- sented by a man who portrays the force of character and the genuine good qualities of such a man as well as his "streak" of selfish injustice— that "streak" which is strangely enough a thing apart from his other qualities. The teaching of the story is that of the verse quoted for everyone, not only for the Eldon Parrs of society. Those who shut their eyes to the Eldon Parrs, who look only at the exterior of the whited sepulchers, who condemn the younger generation for not going to church, instead of living their religion seven days of the week so devotedly that young people will feel that there is more honesty, charity. Christian love, and zeal for the Kingdom of God on earth among churchgoers than among themselves, should heed the lesson imparted by this picture. The Inside of the Cup. Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions. Dis- tributed by Famous Players. 8 Reels. "OVER THE HILL" AGAIN T AST month the review of Over the Hill was criticized "^ as being cold and unappreciative. This was not the reviewer's attitude. Over the Hill on that particular day happened to look more like a preachment against ungrate- ful husbands and children than like a glorification of mothers. On another day, or to another person, the second aspect might seem to pre- dominate. Both aspects are important, and it is a pity to omit either one. ^"^lUiam P Carleton and Marg'uerite ClaytDn mthe Cosmopolitan Production •Qhe Inside of the Cup:. A Pira.momit Picture 18