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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
with William Garwood
Chang stabs Foo Shai in the back before the great Joss.
lEW YORK and the Far East, Oriental magnificence and the commercialism of the new world, are contrasted in the latI est Bluebird photoplay, "Broken Fetters," which was written and produced by Rex Ingram, the clever young director whose work in a previous Bluebird, "The Great Problem," receives so much recognition from the public and the professional critics. Violet Mersereau was his chief star in his first success, as she is of the present play, which gives her an even better opportunity for her talents than the former did. As the little American girl, brought up in the Celestial Empire, by a Mandarin, and lured to the new world by tales of Its splendor, she shares the honors with William Garwood, who has a sympathetic role as the young artist, which he handles with his usual skill. The part of Ming-Ti, the "chinafied" little American, is full of opportunities for Miss Mersereau, of whch she takes full advantage. There is plenty of comedy of the dainty kind, for which
BLUEBIRD Photoplay. Written and produced by Rex Ingram. A thrilling tale of the importation of an American girl brought up in China, into an opium den in New York's Chinatown.
CAST.
Mignon (as a child)..Kittens Reichert Mignon (grown up). .Violet Mersereau
Foo Shai Frank Smith
The Captain William T. Dyer
Mr. Demarest Paul Panzer
His Wife Isabel Patterson
Lawrence Demarest Wm. Garwood
"Spike" Paddy Sullivan
The Detective Guy Morville
Chang Charles Fang
she is famous, and, as the story develops, she has emotional moments which call for all the power which she is able to bring to them. Another
whose work deserves recognition, is Frank Smith, who, in the role of the opium merchant of New York's Chinatown, gives an impersonation of the Oriental character which is a remarkable screen achievement.
The story of the unusual photoplay is as follows:
Captain Ferrers, an English oflBcer in China, befriends an old Chinese Mandarin. When the Boxer rebellion deprives Mignon, the Englishman's little child of both her parents, the Mandarin shows his gratitude to the dead man by adopting his daughter. He changes her name to Ming-Ti, and brings her up with all the care that he would bestow upon a child of his own blood. Several years later, the merchant, Foo-Shai, proprietor of a den in an American Chinatown, finds his way, when in China, to the garden of the Mandarin, and, beguiling MingTi with stories of the "wonderful country vnth houses like mountains that reach into the clouds," persuades her to com.e with him Together with another slave girl, she is brought to America and smuggled into New York in a barrel of rice. The slave