Show CLAUDETTE COLBERT f r FOUND AT ORPHEUM I Fannie Hu Hurst's recent cent dramatic novel hovel Imitation of Life In its ils film filin I adaptation is now furnishing entertainment enter enter- nt at the Orpheum theater Claudette Colbert doing a splendid splendid did piece of work as the young oung widow faced with the problem of earning a living and keeping up a home for her flier small girl Warren William has hashe the he leading male role opposite her bringing a romantic clement element into the tory of her struggle The action of the story at the beginnIng beginning begin begin- ning t is Ls laid In Atlantic City where Eca Pullman and her colored maid 1 Delilah open a shop to serve Delilah's delicious pancakes and soon find themselves on the way to fame and a large e fortune through the popularity of ot Aunt Delilah's pancakes and pancake pan pancake cake flour Ten years cars after when Be Ben Mu h the executive ot of a prosperous busi busl- I ness romance enters her life Peola r Delilah's child chUd furnishes lions her ha hatred tred for tor her ow own ric race and 1 determination to live as a white girl casting the shadow of tragedy oV over r the happiness of the women Laughter La 8 arid and nd tears alternate as the story unfolds un un- folds with its moments of oC poignancy and and tenderness and tension leading I tip tUp to the thc climatic moment when Bea rejects romance for tor the sake of the ther t i ter r for whom she h has Work worked w i f f Rochelle Hudson plays the young It f part while Peola at nt 19 is portrayed por- por L by y Fred Fredi Washington Louise Louisek k Lv Beavers admirably fills the therole of the ther k r capable n Delilah Delnah Ned SParks deadpan t comedian median is cast east in the part of ota a sales sales- i man who comes to the young youn widows widow's aid Several short subjects are arc found I on the surrounding program |