Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

Reel Life 13 William Garwood and Ernest Joy in "L' Article 47' Majestic Majeslk L' Article 47 Nov. 18, 1913 CAST Georges Duhamel -. ; , William Garwood Mme. Duhamel — his Mother Mrs. White Cora — a Quadroon Miss Bateman Delille — an Avocat Mr. Davies Mazilier — a rich young Parisian Ernest Joy This excellent adaptation to the motion-picture screens of the famous French play depends for its plot upon a fool police regulation known as "U Article AT' which prohibits under severe penalties an ex-convict from residing in Paris — whether his conviction has been just or unjust — in fact, with no recognition of any mitigating circumstances whatever. In a somewhat modified sense, this law exists upon the Paris statute-books to this day — and, considering the hopeless, maniacal brutality of the Paris Apache, it may be that M'sieur Lepine finds it easier to protect the lives and property of law-abiding visitors to his city by enforcing this regulation to the letter. The story runs as follows : Georges Duhamel meets in New Orleans the handsome Creole, Cora, with whom he falls violently in love. He takes her to Paris and, in spite of the protestations of his Mother and friends, refuses to give her up. There, she becomes infatuated with Mazilier, a young millionaire. Duhamel is naturally jealous. During a quarrel in which he threatens her with a revolver, it is discharged and she is wounded in the shoulder. Preferring a charge of attempted murder against him, she succeeds in having him sent to the galleys at Toulon, where he serves a five-year sentence. At its expiration, he returns to Paris under another name, in defiance of Article 47, and lives quietly there with his Mother. Subsequently, he meets and marries a lovely girl. Marcelle. They are ideally happy until, one day, he meets Cora upon the boulevard. She is now running a gambling establishment and threatens him with exposure unless he frequents it. In time, Marcelle learns where he goes and suspects him of being unfaithful. She follows him to Cora's house and learns from him the story of his life. Realizing what he has suffered at the Creole's hands, Marcelle forgives him. Finding that his wife will not give hirn up, Cora denounces him to the police. He is arrested — brought to Cora for identification — and is about to be sent back for a longer sentence at Toulon when an official arrives with a full pardon. Cora subsequently goes mad. The story is really more of a slur on the Creole temperament in Louisiana than the facts justify — for the Creole women of New Orleans have a reputation for fidelity toward those they care for at least — but this is the fault of the French playwright who naturally favored his countrymen, and it in no way interferes with the absorbing interest of the many and varied scenes. Experienced During an Episcopal convention in Boston, one of the bishops had an experience he will long remember. He v/as a portly man, weighing over three hundred pounds. One afternoon while walking through Boston Common he sat down on one of the benches to rest. When he attempted to get up, he failed in the effort. He tried again and failed. About this time a little girl, poorly clad, came along and was attracted by the struggles of the bishop. Stepping up to him, she exclaimed : '"Don't you want me to give you a lift?" The Ijishop gazed at her in amazement and exclaimed: "Why, you can't help me. You are too little." "No, I am not," she replied. "I have helped my pa get up many times when he was drunker than you are." — Homiletic Review.