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Wild Burst of Patriotism I July 27th RCADE July 28 th THEATRE MORGAN CITY, LA. A WOM NHOOD "THE GLORY OF THE NATION" Fmlif Porfc nf Nnapfopnlor Photoplay Presented for the Purpose of Hammering CJgul I ullo UI iJptJlLdv llldr Home the Terrible Results of Unpreparedness. Wim 'ÆÊSÊl ÆÊSm ^ ' V ' * ' I "WOMANHOOD" 1 SL___ IN ITS TERRI A à ^ * Jm $T KELLY ■W' '.V W. m vy STARRING Any verbal argument Alice Joyce & Harry T. Morey And An All-Star Cast "WOMANHOOD" WAS FILMED BY COL J. STUART BLACKTON AT THE THE REQUEST OF EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. acclamed die >*0 e artistic triumph of die year 1917. Reviewed by the Press, Public, Clergy, Army and Navy Officials of New (Means and pronounced the Greatest Achievement ot die Screen. (pEVIEVE GREVEMBERG WiD Furnish Music To Accompany This Big Production and Night on Both Days - - fgVfg - - PRICES:^" _ «C Mexico was a visi * of Baton i yesterday. of Gibson was V-.of' Glemvild was *y. has returned Of Baldwin is Rogers. , visited at this week. & business y. Aujenn »«fOfsts of Mrs. 1 »-. •ad Miss 1%» m Miss Lucy Foote, who has been attending summer school in New Orleans returned home yesterday. ! Miss Catherine Everett who has been visiting her aunt Mrs. A ,K is the guest. of-Mrs. T. A. Duffy at Ramos,. La. vfr h. pi, y #v ... • • wJT-L*"- ° iV. eW g 13 iS j W hite left for New Orleans today. I -Mrs. Rous of New Orleans, La., ^siting his brother Mr. Eugeçe . re. John Ditch left yesterday, for Beaumont, Texas to while. spend a Mr. W. Byrant has returned from an extended visit to Qpelousas, Washington, and. Port Barre. Mr. McCool of McCool, Miss., af ter a visit to Mr. J. Greenwafd, has —turned tb his home. Miss Uli. Do*», after spenjtagj"" a fe» mosthc with her «raatoother » u__— L_ -u ___* æ __, : 4M ■ ;i few <U MM j Howard» after a . « as* has ret «rned to her home in Jean j ere ^*' iyi rs g oux an( j M rs <j>. A Duffy ! motored to Morgan City yesterday a trtiernoon to spend the evening with IVJrs, P. L. Raiche. V * Mrs. H. P. Cropper accomplished by her daughter Mrs. Roussa and ! niece Miss Frieda Clay left yester-j iday for New Orleans to spend a U CTV days * - j ^ ^ Mrs> Wm . Drews and j daughters Edna and Grace motored f rom Raton Rouge to Morgan City. home j They will make their future i here. EVANGELINE TONIGHT Kelton Helen Urmy and Ralph j are in love,* but there is parental op position to Helen marrying a poor " -h i" j¥ we " 1 * h J' ^ '"'tors. Raiph shats to drive Helen to the home of her old nurse, in the ----- „, .—~ M.VM.WVU, Iwhen i violent storm hpeafcr, early 1| '* 1 " " suitors. Ralph starts to drive Helen !h° me °* her old nurse, in the country, late one afternoon, and in the evening, they are compelled deluge continues with gales of~wind'Dr. J and blinding flashes of lightening | Helen a od Ralph are compelled to j register as man and wife and occupy : he oTlly room that is available. Dr - Stafford, who lives opposite, j is watching from his window when ; lightning strikes the hotel - at mid-{ j night. Hurrying across the road, he! find tfiat Ralph has been electrocu- j ted by"the bolt which narrowly ! ! missed setting the building on fire. I J Helen, distracted when she realizes | i ber Position, confesses to Dr. Staf ae > sympathetically, promises shield her. position, confesses to Dr. Staf-; ford that she is not Ralph's wife and In subsequence years Helen mar ries Olivier Urmy. They have a daughter, Aline, who goes to school and falls in love with Billy Cupps, _________ „ son of Helen's old nurse. One day Urmy brings Dr. Stafford in£o his t0 ! home, introducing him as his college class mate. In Stafford's changed condition, due to the use of intoxi- cants and drugs, Helen does not re 'cognize'hhn—but the doctor dearly recalls where he saw Mrs. Urmy. When Sere he saw Mrs. Urmy. Alto« Ifoofftte Stafford falls in love with her - ford reeaUä to Helen the incident of j thc lightning stroke, a secret she hatl kept safeî y, and as the price she t must P ray to P revent hcr exposure Stafford demands that she ^ shall and asks for her hand in marriage. ! The vast discrepancy in thdîr ages makes the match seem ridiculous to Mr. and Mrs. Urmy, while the girl, I in love with Billy Cupps, a boy of her own age, is distracted. Dr. Staf com P el her dau ? hter to marry him. i----- r> ----- ------ u.j , Jenny Cupps, upon her death bed, 1 jnvires Helen that she must come to f **»»* ** »UWWUUJ JISV1VU l/J. VWVUC7 U17 o u her journey and finally learns the true parentage of Billy Cupps. her old nurse. Helen, at the depot, receives a telegram that Aline and Billy Cupps have eloped and mar ried. Sending the message home to her husband, Helen proceeds upon Helen had gone to her old nurse in the hour of her greatest distress. . The son she bore was entrusted to Jenny to rear as her own, Helen jpy paying liberally for her boy's care and education. Some months* jafter Helen's son diçd^ind, to keep*' r^i^.oointoi Jemjy jiad.sub-'tome.ior - stituted her own daughter's boy and While Helen is away Oliver Urr.iy takes Dr. Stafford for an .-co bile ride. Stafford, under • h > in fluence of drugs, starte i, make ' a disrespectful remark about ! reared him, secretly, as the child Helen had entrusted to her old nurse to educate. Billy Cfupps, with whom Aline had just eloped, thus became ac ceptable as Helen's son-in-law. Urmy. Loosening his hold upon thu steering wheel, Lrm;. grabs Stai fnrd ^ f ^ h h The machine veers from the road, rolls down an embarkment and Stafford is killed while Urmy escapes miraculously, with slight injury. J-Ieien returns home, after re _ YYu YiY ( ", upp ' bedside until the old nurse dies, and learns tthe news of Stafford's death. With her secret now safe in her own keep ing and her daughter married. Helen lives her remaining days .hap jpy in the love of her husband with ^her unfortunate past obliterated. ______ ÔaUy Review delivered to you» 40 c p» B «ÿ.