A MORMON MAID
starring Mae Murray
PHOTOPLAY
April 1917
I doubt the propriety of a play attacking an existing sect,
even for performances distinctly beyond the pale. "The Latter
Day Saints," as the followers of Joseph Smith call themselves,
have written one of the strangest pages of American history. In
general practice at least polygamy seems to have disappeared in
Utah, and many of our staunch Western patriots and good citizens
believe firmly in the Angel Moroni, the revelations on the golden
plates, and all that. "A Mormon Maid" deals with the
militant period of the Mormon church, and the escape of a gentile
from the compulsion of sex-greedy Mormon elders. There are "Avenging
Angels," plotting, broken hearts and sudden death in this
well-told, convincingly written story -- which, as I have said,
seems a morbidly unnecessary rehash of a certain phase of American
history. Mae Murray is the principal artiste.
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