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Show American Show "Offshore Pirate" Today Delightful Viola Dana, tho efferveocent little actreea, will toon be seen by local theatreiroere In tho atellar role of' "The Offshore Pirate," the Metro production which comes to th Amor Icon theatre for thr days, beginnlna; today. ' In this unusual picture, which waa adapted from the story of F. Scott Fits-fferald. Fits-fferald. as published In the 8a t urday Kvenlne I'ost, Miss lana has a part that brlnsja out all hr unusual grift. As Ardita Ar-dita Karnhfim, the airl who is stolen by a modern piratical young; man, ahe excels her previous efforts. The atory tells of Ardita Famham. youns. rich and beautiful, whoa heart has ffone to a schemlnjr foreigner who cleverly plots for her money. Her relations re-lations real isa what a ma-ue he I, but Ardita la adamant and Intend to marry him. In deMpair, they contrive a plan. Toby MoreianU, a happy-jo-lut ky youi.s; fellow, board Ardlta'a yacht with a handful of cut throats, and seises the venae I. Out of this a romance sprlnjrs but unexpectedly and after thrilling happenings. hap-penings. "The ftffffhore TMrate" was adapted for the screen by Wall nmr Touiir. TaTThj M. Fitzgerald directed, snd th camera-man camera-man wai John Arnold. The art Interiors , and effects are by A. F. Manta. .Supporting- Viola lana I the following-! excellent cant: Jack Mulhall, as Toby More land; Kdwnrd Jobeon, as t'nele John Famham; and Kdward Cecil as Ivan! Nevkova, the Ilusaittn. Critics who have already seen the picture, pic-ture, hail It as a powerful romance, ! arnndine; far out of the ordinary run of 1 pictures. It rndlatrs life from the very ! out at t until the lust satlsivlriir touches and move nn rapidly aa the trim little I yacht on which mot of the action trans-iuta trans-iuta Ti -'-"f r- f nh j lies, distinct tributes both to its oriKinal 1 I author and to Metro. |