Show Life Story Story-Is 1 s Told At Paramount An appreciative audience sat more than three hours in the Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Par mount theater Thursday night and watched unfolded on the screen the I story tory of the career of ot the greatest showman howman of them all Florenz I The occasion was the opening of the he road show engagement of ot The Great Metro-Goldwyn- Metro Mayers Mayer's long-awaited long and much much- heralded production So well welt told is the story so finely and extravagantly staged the many dance and song spectacles that the picture fairly speeds on Its way toward toward to- to ward vard the tragic end to the tho life of the ho tho man who glorified the American Ameri Arrieri- can girl To try to tell of or all that Is enjoyable cn- cn in The Great would be impossible in less than several everal columns Mammoth ammoth is a word used often In motion picture promotion but it rings true when hen used to describe this one The producers have called upon two wo veterans of ot tho the footlights who went to fame famo in hand-in-hand with Zie feld Fannie Brice whom found in a burlesque and Ray Bolger Bolger Bolger Bol- Bol ger who worked around theaters heaters as a stagehand before the master producer discovered in him hima a comic cornie dance sensation n are in included included in- in eluded in a long list of ot notables in inthe inthe I the he cast Other great names synonymous with that of or are arc portrayed by iy others and in two instances the Imitations are near perfect those perfect those of Eddie Cantor Cantor- and Will Rogers Luise RaIner a haired dark-haired beauty beauy beau- beau ty 1 y plays Anna Held the French singer whom brought to America and made famous by the faked stories of her daily baths in milk The role of Billie BUlie Burke whom married after Anna Held divorced him is played by Myrna La Loy The Great covers the theart part art of the producers producer's life from the time ime he was an obscure side-show side owner at the Chicago worlds world's fair exhibiting the tho strong man Sandow to his death that followed closely upon financial disaster Working across tho the midway from him is one Jack Billings played by Frank Trank Morgan his closest rival and steadfast friend Throughout t their careers they are constantly waging a fight to sign up the greatest stars and Billings constantly is staking And thus is related the story of the relation of Florenz and Charles B. B The spectacular side sido of ot the pic pie ture the ture-the the lavish song and dance numbers done dono in a manner that doubtless himself would admira admire admire ad ad- mire mira were he alive makes alive makes it one of the finest musicals yet to come corne out of Hollywood |