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When Robert Judson, an expert in criminology, begins to unravel the mystery of "The Devil Stone," in Geraldine Farrar's Artcraft production of that title, he undertakes his investigation with an apparent disinterest in the persons whom he is interviewing while he seems to be deeply absorbed in the scrutiny of a miniature ivory idol on his desk. After a few minutes contemplation, Judson startles his interviewers with an almost uncanny disclosure of circumstances in the investigation which have been revolving in his mind.
The ivory trinket is owned by Cecil DeMille, director general of the Lasky forces, and producer of the picture, who values it at one
thousand dollars, "The Devil Stone" will be the attraction at the
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Scenario writers, playwrights and dramatic critics have many times wagged their heads in despair and declared, "There are no new plots. All of the great themes in the world have been exhausted. Give us something new! Love and war and the domestic triangle; oppression, crime, stories of detectives and the wild west; everything has been done. What can we do that is different?"
Some time ago D, W, Griffith, who is now an Artcraft producer, demonstrated the fact that there is something new under the sun of dramatic themes by producing a stupendous film based on the theme of Intolerance through the ages. Now comes Cecil DeMille and the Lasky Company introducing Geraldine Farrar in a big theme — and a new one — SUPERSTITION,
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