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Photo-Play Journal
The New York Idea
From Alice Brady's Photo-play By CHARLES ELLIOTT DEXTER
Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, and they asked him,
Saying, Master, there were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and died without children.
And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
Last of all the woman died also.
Therefore in the resurrection, Whose wife of them is she ?
MODERN society has tackled this problem of the confusion of wives and solved it without waiting for the Resurrection. God ordained marriage but man with his extraordinary faculty for "looking after himself" bethought him of divorce. Then woman took the joy out of it for him by discovering the possibilities of alimony. In New York City, bounded on the north, south, east and west by the state of divorce, legal balm is quickly applied to loving hearts and they start to throb again — for someone else.
In the divorce court presided over by Judge Philip Phillimore, the New York idea — marry for whim and leave the rest to fate — and the divorce court — was applied daily.
Judge Phillimore, born and bred out of countless generations of smug and
THE
CAST
John Kar slake
. . . .Lo-tvell Sherman
Sir Bates-Darby....
Lionel Pape
Judge Phillip Phillimore . .George Hoiuell
Bishop Mat hew Philh
tnore.Edicards Davis
J' id a Phillimore
.... .Hedda Hopper
Mrs. Phillimore
Julia Hurlev
Directed bv Herbert Blache.
Fictionized by permission of Realart
Pictures Corporation
musty respectability, had found one redeeming feature in divorce — a comfortable income. And as he raced through the obsequies of marriage at a terrifying speed, his brother, the Reverend Bishop Mathew Phillimore, supplied him with possible cases by marrying men and women. The Bishop realized that in a society where the multiplication of automobiles is preferred to that of progeny, every marriage is a possible divorce. For instance, as he wedded Cynthia and John Karslake, he realized that many of those whom he joined would be put asunder by his brother, the Judge, but he was not daunted.
The wedding of Cynthia and John was fashionable to the extreme of fashion. The bride was a dangerous contrivance of nature, the groom, a millionaire, sportsman and famed for taking long chances. Cynthia's mother had divorced Cynthia's father long before the practice had been generally adopted. Her philosophy of marriage, as expressed to Cynthia in the moment she kissed her just after the ceremony was summed up in these words:
"Remember, child, a man values a woman just as high as she values herself— and no higher."
The Phillimore home on the Hudson, wherein resided the Judge and his thirty-nve-year-old wife, Vida, was like its owner, substantial but not in
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