Show Norma Shearer At Paramount A Free Soul Norma Shearer's strongest dramatic picture to date will be presented beginning Friday at the Paramount As Jane Ashe Ache a beautiful girl of aristocratic lineage misled Into sophisticated beliefs of freedom by a n. brilliant though dissolute dissolute dissolute disso disso- lute father she gives a n. remarkable portrayal running an amazing emotional emotional emo- emo lonal gamut Lionel Barrymore de deserted deserted de- de directing to play the powerful role roJe of the father St Stephen phen Ashe a criminal lawyer lawer while Clark Gable and Leslie LesIle Howard complete the trio that hat complicates the girls girl's life Adela Rogers St St. John wrote the novel from which the picture was adapted Norma Shearer Is 15 Ideal as Jan who faces life with the calm assured arrogance bred In her by her father ather Applying his philosophy to her own life lle she believes that she can canIve live Ive as she wishes scorning the conventional con con- laws that seem to her to shackle hackle the freedom she Me cherishes On the evening her engagement to toa toa toa a society sportsman Dwight Winthrop Winthrop Win- Win hrop Is announced her father arrives arrives ar- ar rives ives drunk accompanied by Ace Wilfong leader of a gambling ring whose life he has saved from the gallows Wilfong Is snubbed by Jans Jan's seere severe se- se vere ere and courtly grandmother and se-I se her guests and Jan rushes to his de- de ense Her Infatuation for Wilfong I Is s as scandalous to her family as her others fathers Intemperance The strong tie tic le of love and sHe affection cHon between faher father father fa- fa ther her and daughter Is put to a a. t test st when Ashe agrees to give up his drinking 1 if Jan will forsake her gangster gangster gangster gang gang- ster lover Torn by her love for her father ather her passion for Wilfong and her Instinctive response e to Winthrop she Is brought face to face with life lite realities that must inevitably re result result result re- re sult In ha tragedy 1 If she d does not re restraIn restrain restrain re- re strain her tempestuous longing for freedom Leslie Howard Is well cast as Winthrop Winthrop Win Win- and Clark Gable last seen with Joan Crawford In Laughing Sinners Sinners Sinners Sin Sin- ners Is the dynamic Ace WUfong Wilfong A The Herring Murder Murder Murder Mur Mur- der Case and Paramount sound news complete the program Showing for the last times today Is lathe the Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount drama of or big city cUy intrigue The Vice Squad with Kay Francis and Paul Lukas s |