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When Jesse L. Lasky presents Geraldine Farrar in her latest Artcraft production, "The Devil Stone," which will open at the
on the celebrated star will have as a vehicle a story
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of unusual interest, considerably different from any of the former film plays in which she has thus far appeared.
Cecil B, DeMille is responsible for the staging of the latest Farrar vehicle, having produced the picture from a story of weird fascination written by Beatrice DeMille and Leighton Osmun, and adapted to the screen by Jeanie MacPherson.
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Miss Farrar creates the role of a simple Breton fisherwoman, removed after the early part of the story to America, as the wife of an unscrupulous millionaire owner of the fisheries, Silas Martin. The similarity of the man's name with that of Silas Marner, the miser of fiction, is particularly appropriate because Martin, who meets the fisher girl in Brittany whither he has gone to subdue his employees who are clamoring for higher wages, demonstrates his miserly impulses by marrying the girl in order to get possession of a valuable emerald which she has found along the seashore, and which, in her simple, superstitious belief, is a relic of the legendary Queen Grenelda, of Norse folk lore."^
The underlying theme of the narrative, namely, the sinister effect of the world-old stumbling block of man. Superstition, furnishes the basis for a story of interesting study, since it links with the ancient tale of Grenelda a modern development of the curse placed upon the possessor of the Devil Stone, carried down into the events of the life of Marcia Manot, as a Breton fisher girl and later as the wife of Silas Martin in America.
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