“THE SONG OF THE SOUL.”

Shannon News, 3 July 1923, Page 2

“THE SONG OF THE SOUL.”

The story of Wednesday’s picture is as follows :

little Jerry Wendover’s act of heroism in rescuing a little girl from a fire blasts his own happiness by leaving a terrible disfigurement on one side of his face, but it enables him to one day hear “The Song of the Soul” from a pure woman’s lips. In mam hood he finds himself shunned and retires to the seclusion of an old house in the “Backwater” district of Florida. Even there the natives imagine him - half black and hold aloof from: him. One night he finds a young girl wandering blindly in the swamp and shelters her. she has just lost her only relative and is as much alone in the world a s himself—she is blind. Into the hearts of these two unfortunates comes a. spark of love and mutual clependance which leads to their marriage and complete happiness. The coming of a child arouses in blind Barbara a longing to see the baby. Wendover now hopes she may be cured and telle her of his afflictions.' An attempt is made by the natives to lynch him, because he is half black," and has .taken advantage of the blind girl, but she saves him and explains that she knows of his disfigurement. Accident brings .ai doctor to the backwater, house. He sa.ys there 1? hope for Barbara,. She is taken to New York for the operation, but she returns home before the bandages ere removed except to give .her a glimpse of the child. She now learns that her devoted husband lives in dreaJd of the moment she shall look upon his face. In a sublime moment of self-sacrifice she removes the- bandage in a strong light, gives her baby a fond look, and returns to the blindness now incurable. Wendover is overcome on divining the sacrifice she has made for his sake, but she gives him: even greater love than ever, the one great song of her souL