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Show "YOUNG DIAHA" IS MARION DAVIES' TRIUMPH By JtMCI w. pr .v, NEW YOKK, Aug. U. Marion navies has forgotten that ahe s beautiful. Those who sponsor her In the films hays forgota that fact. slso. Thus shs becomes oae of ths moat accomplished screen stars of the present day. This writer used to see Miss Ja-ties' Ja-ties' screen vehicles with consider-able consider-able regularity and with ths sara regularity -return to his typewriter to write hslf a rolumn or so to t-ll the world, at 1 asi that part-whki) - read hla stuff snd ran, what a miserable mis-erable actress the young lady waa and what a tlreaom pasilm it u to look upon yards and ards vl her face In soft focus. Then came "The Younr Ilana' and a galvanic shock Mtss ;avlea was really acting! This writer wa- probably the first one oMtM th ' employ of William Randolph Hearst, who emplovs Miss levies, to cnroH- tcle ths fact of Mlas Da vies artistic growth. .Then fn "When Knighthood Wa n Flower.- Miss Davie played the rtle as probanlv no other actress ot ths s-crsca could havs played U. Jsft-i earned Pull recomltn aa a star hy l her work In that film, but a few doubting Thorn r-es said. "Watt, Ict'a se-n tf ahe can do it asa'n." She rW It .j.-a'n In "Ivlitia -Alii New York ' In ' thin picture he plavs the role vt an Irish 1as who rltps her'hstr and mas,ueafi s aa a hoy'to claim a for'ure l-rt to her In the New York of I.obert Fulton s dav Here arsln Mtss ravtes flits a difficult role as probably r-o other ttetrefs of the screen could have filled It. There 1- litis difference httwMP her almnlar-Jon emotion in h- film ar-d li'e ls'f. Ttv her work In "When Kotght-l-rod Was in ir.i-r" and T.lttle OM New Yo-k." 'e ra' t-s takes rank with those few lesdiT actresses act-resses of the arrets, whos- number - may be counted on th finger of I one hand. I Aa In her previous picture the ' lsr is wurroif.-ded br a cp t o ex- I ceptlonal r-ert. t M. Kerrlran. I'Vsrrl'on Ford, JdaMon Hamilton. j Courten--Kooto end others do Ije- I I ro'c work. i! However, th- splndld -efforts of ' ' the et do not wave the oletnre 1 from ths curse we length. The ftlo 'is faiiltllv const-nctd. It wss made 1 1 with a certain footaae In view. It f snnt-aln s-verr! einphVacke which !CO 'd well be el'mlnstsd Tbre ts a beautiful scene t.i which Mlse ravles with angelic expression ex-pression plss a harp for a hundred hun-dred feet. It ouThf a come out. St tvirhr the f;a-hHck In which .,e F.sr'es tells her erersnres ' In Ire'ind a-d on the way to Amer-' Amer-' lea. Such method Is -old Stuff, in this case It slmnly presents to ths sfsctatcr some t )1 nr the spectator l.sts aH-adv understood. In short. I,ltt:e did New Yorlr" Is a beautiful film well played, but sadly sasglng In actio,. In wartime d.ya "The R'sr flpan-glcn flpan-glcn Banner" was prohibited as part of a rcediey. Tha.t prohibition should, still be enforced. The song should be. recognised and honored as the national s t.t hm onlv wnn It fs played aa a Fcpnrnta piece. No one should stand or uncover or salute sa-lute -when "The M'r lpaTiK'ed Haa-ncr" Haa-ncr" Is mixed up In a mcdlev. The national anthem la written IMo the scoro of 'T.lttle OM NVw York" so th.it'ff occurs at.the end of the first half of the plctur-. Probably the mosr distlnguiihe-J audience that hna attended a stage or screen performance in New York la a year was present st the premier. pre-mier. They sros-a ne by one as the tuns wss picked up bv the orchestra. or-chestra. This si r.iKs:ltrtjf effect was in no wav a tribute to the national anthem or th national spirit. Such sights are frequent when hvpocritlcal composers and exhibitors exhibi-tors try to rea--h the emotions of an rujdlenee throutrh spurious uk of the national anthem. -Wedding Rings' is ths title chosen for Monty Banks' eighth Orand-Asher comedy relesse. directed di-rected by Harry Cd wards- This picture has Just been completd and Hern-Tin n Haymaker ha start-sd start-sd the ninth of ths series of twelve for ths 'aeon, which as yet Is Entitled, En-titled, tUna Gregory la Itadlnff |