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Show Imary. pickford comes sunday in "coquette" You will love her Mary Pickford, of course, the new Mary Pickford who comes to (he screen of the Rivoli thcatnr Sunday and Monday in her newest, all-talking picture, "Coquette." To hear Mary Pickford and to see her in this newest picture is to experience a revelation. The old Mary, with her curls and little-girl dresses, is gone forever. The new Mary of "Coquette" is the last word in smart young womanhood, close-cut close-cut bob, Paris frocks, high-heeled slippers and everything. But, now and then, the little girl, who is gone but not forgotten, pecks out from behind the young woman who has taken her place. No transformation transfor-mation can eradicate that picquant sweetness and wistful smile which belong to "America's Sweetheart." Last night's audience settled down in their seats with a sigh of relief after the first sound of the voices of the players. By some magic manipulation of the sound devices used in recording the voices, Miss Pickford and her director di-rector have succeeded in producing produc-ing a talking picture in which the tonal quality is natural and clear without the trace of mechanical whceze and grating. Mary's voice itself is a delight in its clarity and resonance, equally effective in its youthful lightness and in its more mature throatiness during the tensely dramatic moments of the drama, "The perfect screen voice," would faithfully describe Mary'3. With the same decision with which she cut off her curls and ; , tucked away her childish past, Mis3 Pickford has selected the most dramatic dra-matic and powerful of the current Broadway stage successes as the first screen expression of her new self. As Norma Ecsant, the little belle of a small town, Miss Pickforu re-veais re-veais superlative appeal and force. She , port rays the emotional development devel-opment of this little flirt from gay girlhood to tragic womanhood with an understanding and finesse, that (clinches her place in the forefront of screen stars. "Coquette" is the love story of one of today's girls, who dances, kisses, flirts and plays in the moonlight, moon-light, making a grand and glorious game of life. One day she meets a man from a different world, a serious young mountaineer, Michael Jeffrey loves Norma as she has never been loved before, iwho refuses re-fuses to play her "come hither" game of insincerity. "THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES'1 There is something of the elemental elemen-tal in the make-up of everyone, in the opinion of Milton H. Gropper, author, with Edna Sherry, of "Thru Different Eyes," the all-dialogue Fox Movietone production, at the Rivoli theater Wednesday and Thursday. This theory is proved, almost daily, according to Gropper, by the tense interest with which the pub-he pub-he follows reports of murder trials in the daily papers. "If you've ever attempted to gain admittance to a big murder trial in one of our courts, you'll realize the tremendous magnet the spectacle of of a man on trial for his life really is," he added. "It reminds me of the stories in history of how the Romans flojked to tho Coliseum to see prisoners , summarily tried and put to death. There is that same feeling of terrific ter-rific suspense and fascination that the ancients must have bad as they watched the terrible ordeals to which Nero's victims were subjected." |
