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Show IMolpIi Valentino 1 InDavisl. Showing The free public film series sponsored by the Davis-University Davis-University of Utah Program for Higher Education will continue Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. . THE SUBJECT of the series is "The History of Motion Pictures." Two films will be a shown Wednesday: "Son of the Sheik" and "Story of (Serials." "Son of the Sheik" is iRudolph Valentino's last film imade in 1926. It is a swashbuckling swash-buckling adventure which is. Itypifying of the extravagant and glamorous mood of the movies' "Golden Age." ! IT IS done with enough tongue-in-cheek to prevent it - being taken too seriously, even then, and because of its deliberately light approach, it seems fresher today than many films in the 1940's. Vil-ma Vil-ma Banky co-stars. "Story of the Serials" is a film showing the development of the popular cliff-hangers of silent days, from 1914 when Pearl White put serials on the map with "The Perils of Pauline" to 1929 when sound brought a new logic that destroyed de-stroyed much of the appeal of the chapter-plays. THE FILM shows that the reign of the serial queens paralleled women's struggle for social and political equality. |