"THE END OF THE ROAD"

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 25, 25 October 1920, Page 6

"THE END OF THE ROAD"

At the .present time, the air _ is filled with recipes. for combating social_ evils, and. one of the latest of these recipes, is that of presenting by means of photoplays the terrible results that follow from ignoranco, uncontrolled passions, and altogether false standards of sex relations. What the eye perceives is sometimes far more effective than many lectures by word-of-mouth alone, and after viewing the propaganda picture-play, "The End of the Road," one of the Public Health, films, which is being preseated in the Empress Theatre (for women) and Everybody's Theatre (for men), there cannot be many illusions retained as to the dangers or lack of dangers that beset ignorance and a light estimate of eexual morality. It is also, by means of the.sequence of events it portrays, a strong advocate of the' teaching of ses hygiene to children. The play is vividly presented, with few reticences, as is to be expected in a propaganda play. The acting is good, and the moral strongly driven homo. Two of tho main characters in the story are girls, the one having had the good' fortune to possess a. wise mother, who carefully instructed her in the mysteries of life, the other possessing a mother who 'repressed her child's natural curiosity, and set beforo her no higher ideal than that of securing a man with money wlicn facing life in a New York departmental store. Disaster almost inevitably befell her. Not only* does she iiart with her Rood name, but she falls » ..victim to disease. Unfortunately, however, she is not the only one in the story to whom such evils befall. Other physically wrecked women are portrayed, and children who are bearing the penalty of the sins of their father in. the . shape of blindness.