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Show 'Dawn of the East' Will Open at Alhambra Friday Alice Urady has. temporarily at least, forsaken tho American society drama for more colorful and Intense stories of foreign lands, and In these she hos already proved herself Immensely Im-mensely successful. Iattst season she appeared on the stage In "Anna Ascends." in which she had the role of a Syrian girl During Dur-ing that'season she made "The I-and of Hope," and "Little Italy." both pictures pic-tures of foreign life, in which she Impersonated Im-personated a Polish Immigrant and an Itallnn girl respectively. This ear she has turned to China lor material for both stuge and screen, nnft for months has been reading everything ev-erything available on Chinese customs, and traditions. In preparation for her latest stuge vehicle, "Driftwood." andi her latest Realurt offering. "Dawn of the East." both of which have their ' ncs lain In "h n i In "Dawn of the East." however.! the star does pot play a Chinese role, but is seen as a Russian noblewoman who has fl'Vl from her ow n country at I tho outbreak of the revolution, and mad i hi i v. iy, with ill hoi titled r ( u- pees, across the plains of Siberia to China, where she Is stranded In Shanghai, pennlleta and burdened with' I the care of a sick sister. Her efforts to eseape from the dls- I tasteful atmosphere of that malodorous malodor-ous port force lb'' unhappy heroine to enter Into a betrothal with a weal- ! thv Chinaman who has been trying to 1 win her by hook or crook. Tho plrl 1 plans to make her escapo with the money which her Oriental suitor has promised her ns a prc-nuptlal settle-' mi nr |