Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-16 | Page 8 | Barthelmess Drama at Paramount Thursday

BARTHELMESS DRAMA AT PARAMOUNT THURSDAY Richard Barthelmess brin brings s an engrossing en grossing character to the screen in inA inA A Modern Hero opening at the Paramount Thursday Novelist Louis Bromfield might have had the star starin starin in mind when he wrote the best sell ing story so well does he approximate approximate mate the character of th the restless Pierre the son ot of a circus beauty and a brilliant financier The boys boy's career from a circus rider to a modern captain of industry Is traced in the course of the drama Jean Muir whose stardom is neat is one of the five leading ladies to appear opposite Barthelmess Veree Teasdale the beauty of oC Fashion Fashion Fash ion Follies Dorothy Burgess Florence Florence Flor Flor- ence EldrIdge and Marjorie Marjori Rambeau are featured Each woman contributes contributes contrib contrib- utes to the meteoric career of the modern modem hero Bromfield has endowed his story with the realistic characterization that tha t has made his books te s ts successes since his first novel The Th e Green Bay Tree Early Autumn which followed won the Pulitzer r prize and A Modern Hero carries carrie rs s on his reputation for vital sketches from life The work of th the German Germa n director G. G W. W Pabst adds to the pictures pie pic tures ture's artistic merit On the supporting program is a anew new Charley Chase comedy I Take Tak e Vanilla Mills Mills' Blue Ribbon banin band ban bandin ed d in a novel act and a new issue isue oC o f UnIversal news will complete th the e pro program ram Showing for the last times tonight t at the Paramount is the musical romance romance ro ro- mance Mel Melody dy in Spring w wit th h hy Lanny Ross Charlie Ruggles Mar Mary y Boland and Ann Sothern