Show Dickens Film Held HeldOn HeldOn HeldOn On Capitol Screen A Tale of Two Cities will wm continue con- con through Friday at the Capitol theater heater the holdover engagement made necessary by the popular demand demand demand de de- de- de mand for the pi picture ture The artistry with which the Dickens novel has been adapted to the screen has won unanimous praise equaled only by bythe bythe the he great groat portrayal given by Ronald Colman in the starring role as Sydney Sydney Syd Syd- ney Carton The great story unfolds as Dickens Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens wrote it with few major changes made in its translation Into screen entertainment Elizabeth Allan plays Lucie Manette the EngIsh English Eng- Eng Ish Ush girl whose kindness to Carton won von his love and gratitude Donald appears as Charles Darnay Darna and Edna May Oliver scores as Miss Pross Prose H leading ading a cast which adapts Itself to the famous Dickens characterizations The story follows the fate of ot the Manettes beginning with the melease re- re lease ease of Dr Manette from the Basile Bastile Bastile Bas- Bas tile ile after 18 years of oC imprisonment Owing Dwing his unjust imprisonment to the Marquis St. St Basil Rathbone h he leaves papers v with ith the he revolutionist DeFarges denouncing denouncing de de denouncing th the corruption of all the Later when his daughter Lucie Lucle falls in love with Darnay a nephew of ot the hated family family fam- fam ily ly Manette forgets his desire for vengeance in his hope for his daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's happiness With the outbreak of the French revolution the family is drawn into the he scenes of at destruction and terror that hat turned all Paris Into a battlefield battle battle- field Thousands of players take part partIn In the great spectacle scenes showing the storming and capture of the kings king's fortified prison the Bastille Henry B. B Walthall is well cast as Dr Manette Claude as Mr Lowry Reginald Owen as er Blanche Yurka the stage actress as Madame DeFarge and Billy Bevan as Jerry are also featured a novel act illustrating illustrating illustrating illus illus- the third dimension in pictures pictures pic plc- tures heads the supporting bill completed by an issue isue of Paramount sound news |