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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
Ru h Denounces
Capital Punishment
STAR of Bluebird Photoplay, "The Saintly Sinner," converted by sensations in playinu convictej heroine.
The scene which preceeds the killing of "White" by "Jane Lee" in "The
Saintly Sinners."
FTER playing "'Jane Lee,'" says Ruth Stonehouse, little star of the Bluebird photoplay, "The Saintly Sinner," "I
Thirteen ^sJ^^Dorotby Davenport's Luckiest Number
have become a greater opponent than ever of the legalized murder which we call by the dignified name of capital punishment.
"Consider the case of the girl in this play. She is forced into crime by circumstances which are stronger than she is. Her final killing of White, if we consider the motive of her act, can hardly be called a crime. Yet, under the law, she is guilty of murder and must pay with her life, unless pardoned by the Governor. What earthly good would it do society for her to give her life for that of a villain like White?
"When I recall my sensations in playing the scene in which I am strapped to the electric chair, though I knew all the time that I was perfectly safe in the studio, and that thf whole thing was arranged for the camera, it makes me want to go out and do something to prevent any of my fellow-beings from suffering so barbarously in earnest, no matter what he may have done. And think of the responsibility of denying time for repentance to any poor soul. If you hear of the Ruth Stonehouse movement for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, do not be surprised. It will be due to my playing of Jane Lee in 'The Saintly Sinner.' "
H— OROTHY DAVENPORT will return to Red Feather pictures I as the star of the next release,
which is called "The Girl and the Crisis." This picture was written by William V. Mong, who has done so many good things for the program, and produced by him with a fine cast of Universal players.
Dorothy Davenport, as all the world knows, is Mrs. Wallace Reid in private life, and she is one of the small number of persons who consider the figure thirteen the most maligned numeral in the world. She declares that she can prove that the influence of this number is beneficent, not malignant.
"In the first place," she says, "I was bom on March 13, and you are not going to make me pretend that I consider myself unlucky! I married Wallace Reid on October 13, 1913, and that was not unfortunate, either. We celebrated our anniversary with a dinner this year, for which we invited eleven guests, so that there should be just thirteen at table. Some one counted, as some one always does, but we begged them not to be alarmed.
Now you're Governor," said Poole. "Do your duty."
it came to an end at one o'clock which is thirteen in many countries.
It was a very nice party, if we did have it on Friday, the thirteenth, and