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Show DAVID BELASCO'S FIRST SCREEN OFFERING AT THE BROADWAY TODAY t . ' in i j , I. in m 11 "" "' ... . : ..' Juan ta s beorothal dance, stopped by Klncald s raid. Scena from the great Lasky BelaKo production of The Rose of the Eancho at the Broad way theater Jesse L Lask the prominent pro ducer through h ompany the Jeeso L Laskv Feituro Pla company an nonnces the forthcom rcleaso of the most brill ant of all Amer au per od plays The Rose of the Rancho bj Da 1 Belasco and R chard V alton Tull with an all star cast headed by Bess e Barr scale a prominent Belasco star In The Rose of the Rancho which will be shown at the Broadwav theater toda and .for the balance of the week as a Paramount programme feature motion p cture author t es see a new vogue n screen art in that after rev ewmg the p cture at a prl vate performance the nanin ons opln ion was that this p cturo exceeded any and all Amer can productions 1 1 po nt of producti e thoroughness au 1 artistic novelties The Laskv compan staged The Rose of the Rancho tit Monterey San Jose and Hollywood Cal in the exact locale of the p ecc There was pract cany no expense atta neu to the stag ng for the mission enes aBl outdoor settings generally were-, at hand vet the piece, it is announced cost more than $50 000 to produce and took fonr mffnths in the accomplishment The plav rah for two veare at he Belasco theater New 1 ork and for several veers on the road before t was produced in eto k throughout the eoun tn It al o perhaps has been pre sented in ever large citj of tho ci lhzed world and Is generally reeop nized as Belasco s greatest and best of fering' The stor leals with he earl da s n California when m ( the po en nent req red that all owue s ot prop c tv shoull eg te the lo nla cs f the san e The Span s who had re s ded there for cent r es and hated the gr ngo rule in a number of cases failed to conipl with the law and their ranches ac ordinglj were j imped b ra der prominent among whom was a Zebras 1 an named Kinca d Kearnev a te cret agent was sent to Californ a to investigate for the government He meets Juan ta the rose of the ranch and they fall in lo e Kearnev nan ages to foil K nca d whose men g e battle to the go ernn ent troops and the story ends w th the marriage of Kearney and Jaumta n the garden of the padre Throughout the Rose of the Ran cho aftords opportunity for st rnng dramatic s tnations lo e passages and splend d character work staged amid scenlo embellishments in a fash on cal culated to aroue enthulam amof the most hypercr tlcal adm rers of "good motion pictures |