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Show Paramount Films Foster s Life . "Swanee River," now screening at the Paramount theater, it the dramatization of Stephen C Foster's Fos-ter's life from the time he reached manhood and knew a great love, until he reaches his tragic end. Few liberties are taken with essential es-sential details, for the facts of the great song writer's life comprise the best elements of screen drama -a" struggle," success end hsppi- J ness, then suffering and poverty. Don Ameche portraya Foster, and Andrea Leeds, a young actress of emotional ability, portray! Jane McDowell, hit sweetheart and wife for whom Foiter wrote "Jesnle With the Light Brown Hair." The third leading member of the cast Is Al Jolson, who playt E. P. Christy, American minstrel king who Introduces the famous "Mr. Intercolutor Mr. Bones" blackface black-face entertainment to the audiences of Europe, and who first sang Foster's Fos-ter's tongi for th American public. |