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Show Paramount pictures in "Icebound, " after several years of success as a character actress on the stage. She made her debut with Nance O'Neill in stock in Huston. Kit-hard Dix and Lois Wilson are featured players in "Icebound," which will be shown at the Star theater next Tuesday. Among the more prominent players in the supporting cast are Vera Reynolds, j Ethel Wales and Alice Chapiu. I I ICEBOUND Edna May Oliver, who plays the : part of Hannah, the quaint slavey, in William de Mille's production of "Icebound," is a contender for Ernest Torrence's laurels. Miss Oliver played Hannah in "Icebound" "Ice-bound" when it was on the boards at the Harris theater last year, and scored a personal success. v "When William de Mille planned the film production of Owen Davis' i prize play, he selected Miss Oliver to appear in the stage role she had created. I As the shambling slavey on a farm in New England, Miss Oliver presents a character study which is filled with quaint mannerisms, a personality which is made more ludicrous through its unromantic pessimism. In her shambling walk, her wonderful play of facial expression ex-pression and her seeming listless-ness, listless-ness, she creates a memorable figure fig-ure on the screen. Miss Oliver makes her debut in |