WITCH WOMAN 1918 Ethel Clayton, Frank Mayo, John Ardizoni TRADE ADVERT

Original 1920 British 11 3/4 inch x 8 1/4 inch Trade Advertisement from The Film Renter & Moving Picture News for the 1918 Travers Vale Drama THE WITCH WOMAN, based on a story by Willard Mack and starring Ethel Clayton, Frank Mayo, John Ardizoni, Jack Drumier, Louise Vale and Robert Emmett Tansey.

Louis La Farge journeys to a little Alsatian village and there makes love to a pretty shepherdess named Marie Beaupre. Following his departure, Marie is cast out of the village, and, forced to survive in the mountains alone, she goes mad. On a hunting trip, hypnotist Dr. Cochefort and his friend Delaunay meet the "witch woman," as she is called, and take her to Paris, where she is cured and then named the heir to Delaunay's fortune. Her adopted guardian introduces her to Louis's twin brother Maurice, and she, believing him to be Louis, flirts with him while searching for an opportunity to obtain revenge. Andrea Montignac, Louis's mistress, begs Marie to give him up, not realizing that it is Maurice who courts her, and, at a masked ball, Marie announces that Louis and Andrea are engaged. Louis only laughs and seizes Marie, whereupon Andrea shoots him. When Maurice enters, both women realize their mistake, and Andrea commits suicide. Maurice then gives Marie his forgiveness and his love.

The Advertisement is in very good condition.