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Show Rex Beach Play , Well Received at American i !fcfpHE CRIMSON GARDENIA" Is Rex J- Beach's newest novel, which was depicted on the screen yesterday at the American theater. It will run two more days. Admirers of the American author i wiil be astonished at an unsuspected phase of his story-telling genius. The action of "The Crimson Gardenia" takes place in New Orleans, t the height of the Mardi Gras. Roland "Van Dam (Owen Moore) separates himself from his sightseeing friends determined to seek adventure. Masked and wearing a domino, dom-ino, he is accosted by Madelon Dofette (Hedda Nova), who is in search of her cousin, whom she has never seen. His mark of identification is to be a black domino and a gardenia. Each unaware of who the other is, the young people fall in love, while their meeting is observed by members of a lawless gang. The criminals also think Madelon's companion is her cousin. He is a fugitive from justice and is thought to have betrayed secrets which will lead to the apprehension of the gang. When finally the real cousin appears he is stabbed by his pursuers. Then LMadelon knows the truth. Made to believe that the man she loves is an enemy, she betrays him into the hands of the criminals, and the succeeding episodes develop a climax no less thrilling than it is unexpected. |