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ID BENNETT IS CHARMING IN HER NEW CIRCUS PICTURE
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HARMING and dainty, Enid Bennett appeared in her newest Thomas H. Ince-Para
‘The Biggest Show on Earth,”” to
Theatre yesterday. The unusual
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character of the picture, its dramatic action and
superb photography, made a deep impression upon the audience and tended to enhance Miss
_ Bennett's popularity among her admirers in this
re city.
Old men in the audience were reminded of their youthful days by the scenes depicting life the presence of wild animals in
cages and the thrilling scenes wherein Miss Ben
nett, as Roxie Kemp, entered a cage of lions and charmed them by the force of her eyes.
Aside
from these incidents, the story has a well sus
tained plot, which is carried out to a dramatic and logical conclusion.
Roxie Kemp, is the daughter of Nat Kemp, part
_ owner of a circus, and on her seventeenth birth_ day he informs her that her mother was no actress, _ but a lady born and that at her death-bed he had
promised her to give Roxie a good education.
He induces her to quit the circus and she becomes an inmate of a boarding school, where she, one
day, saves Marjorie Trent from the fangs of a_
ferocious dog, and, thereby, wins her sincerest friendship. Roxie subsequently meets Owen Trent, brother of Marjorie, and they instantaneously fall in love.
The circus is coming to town and Roxie steals away and arrives there just as a mob, angered because of the refusal of the woman lion tamer to enter the cage, is about to wreck the circus. Roxie dons her old trainer's dress and enters the cage, cows the lions, with the result that the crowd is appeased and the circus saved. She is recognized by Mrs. Trent, the mother of Owen, an aristocratic woman, whose contempt for circus folk is supreme. She repudiates Roxie scornfully, until Colonel Trent, her husband, confesses to her that he is part owner, himself, of the circus and that Roxie is virtually his ward. Mrs. Trent thereupon takes Roxie to her heart and she finds happiness in Owen's love.
The picture was splendidly produced under the direction of Jerome Storm from a story by Florence Vincent. The scenes in and about the circus were extremely realistic and the photography by Charles Stumar was excellent. Appearing in support of Miss Bennett was Melbourne MacDowell, whose portrayal of the circus and ring man was highly artistic. Others in the support were Earl Rodney, Ethel Lynn, Bliss Chevalier and Carl Stockdale.
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