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Show ! : - MARY PHILBIN I I : : : t ' , I ! j i ; s f l ! i 1 f u i s j !i . ' S i ...... . j ' - - - i t-- - -- - w Lasas than three years ago a high school student ta Chicago. Today ' her remarkable work 1b "Marry Go Round'' haa amaaad tha critics of New York. Huch Is the enviable! achievement of Miss Mary Philbin. who, two years ago. waa runner-up In a grant Chicago brains and beau-1 y con teat. Although aha waa not: tha winner of tha contest and was! quite young, the discerning eye of Carl lAemmle, head of tha I ntversal company, saw great poealbltltlee In her and offered her a contract. While at Universal City she baa been f riven careful training by experts n the finer points of acting before the camera. Her handling of Important. Im-portant. roles In eeverel productions has shown that aha hag unusual talent. tal-ent. The heroins of "Merry On Rotrnd" Is a remarkable figure. For months the proper girl, typ perfect and yet qualified by experience was sought-flhe sought-flhe couldn't ha found. Then Miss I hllbin. who was marvellously gull ad to the role, waa considered. l waa an adventeitoua thing, to put a Jirt of so little experience In such a; ramatic part, t'nlveraal did it and. the results ha to mors than Justified the decision. he Is simply too remarkable to describe tn any professional term." said Hupert Juliana director of th, produatlon. "She haa In her work a touch of the rare qualities of our most celebrated emotional actrassao and yet It la unexpiainable. for: sfiea Philbin haa not seen life In the raw, or lived It or ve acted It be- , liulta right. Mies Phtlbtn ts of the wistful, soulful type She Is; alight, haa a fair complexion, gray eyea and. brown hair. j |