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Show i ! 'GENTLEMAN S ; FATE' COMING ! ATTRACTION Remember that adage about a man biting a dog? Well, 'Gentleman's Fate," which openeds at the TUvoli Theatre, is news, judging by Dana's dictum. For it ia a gangster picture without with-out a solitary thing to do with Chicago. The locale of this exciting story A from the facile pen of Ursula Par-rott Par-rott is Jereey City, Just by way of identification, but the happenings I may have taken place in any city j in the United States today. It is by far the best of the so-! so-! called gangster films yet to reach j t'hcj .screen and concerns itself i mainly with the metamorphosis of a young man, reared in luxury, who I finds himself a member of a rum-i rum-i running and gang-feuding family, j In no other picture that we can . recall has Gilbert had a story worthy of his great talent for dra-f, dra-f, matic portrayal based upon suffer-j suffer-j ing and sacrifice and not mere emo j tionalism induced by romaticism. To be sure, there is romance afoot in this new Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr sJirring vehicle and Gilbert makes the most of it. It is the character delineation, however, that offers him the greatest opportunity. The romance is complicated by Leila Hyams and Anita Page, once a society girl, the other an underworld under-world veakllng. He loves one but marries another. Marlene Dietrich's gift for portrayal, por-trayal, marvelous to watch, almost uncanny to reajize, is given free reign in her latest motion picture appearance, in "Dishonored." the Rivoli Theatre attraction Thursday and Friday in which she is co-1 co-1 ctarred with Victor McLagdil, i whose own talents, displayed in j "What Price Glory?" and "The Cock- Eyed World," have given him a great American moving picture following . "Dishonored," the real dramatic romance of one of the world's most i intriguing women, an international ; j secret service agent of wartime , l fame, requires of Dietrich almost ' constant change of character, of i personality, throughout its actton. i presented first as the better and j discouraged woman of the Vienna 4 Blums, she blossoms forth as the j magnet of Vienna's drawing rooms I and cafes. Her character changes t again, and she is seen as a Rus-j Rus-j ian peasant woman, giggling and coy before the advances of the gay officers of thhe general staff. Indifference, scorn, ulncertainty, alertness succeed each other quickly quick-ly in her attitudes. WESTWARD HO, England, May 30 (U.E George Voigt of New York tho favorite, reached the fifth - .'- i.id of the British amateur tournament tour-nament today with a 3 and 2 victory vic-tory over Bernard Elpci, golf Writer. |