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Show I RONALD COLMAN STARRED IN KIPLING DRAMA The motion picture treatment of Rudyard Kipling's most famous novel, "The Light That Failed," opens Wednesday at the Rivoli theatre, with as impressive a cast as has ever graced a movie. The ever-popular Ronald Col-man Col-man plays the role of handsome Dick Heldar, swashbuckler, artist and war reporter, cast in the heroic mold as only Kipling could cast a hero, who for almost two generations was the heart-interest of girls and women throughout the world. ,The role of Torpenhow, soldier-of-fortune and war correspondent, who "fathered" the rapscallion Helder and made his the sensation sensa-tion of London, is played by Walter Wal-ter Huston, veteran of many outstanding out-standing motion picture dramas and Broadway productions, the latest of which was "Knickerbocker "Knicker-bocker Holiday," one of New York's outstanding recent stage productions. The role of Bessie, the street gamin whom Heldar befriends, only to have her turn on him in what is one of the strongest climactic cli-mactic scenes in modern litera- ture, is portrayed by beaatifc' Ida Lupino, while the pan ,'. Maisie, the girl he loved, Is jfc-by jfc-by a beauty new to the seteet-lovely seteet-lovely Muriel Angelus, of the Set York stage. The big supporting cast include.-Dudley include.-Dudley Digges, Ernest Cossin Charles Irwin, Clyde Cook, hu: Aubrey and over four hundrec mounted soldiers and natives. |