Show Gem Pleases With I Jim the Penman There Is a gripping melodrama at the I Gem theatre and for the person who lI likes es to be gripped from the minute a picture opens in a fascination of ot IntelI Inter Inter- I rest eat st attendance at one of ot the performances perform- perform j i cs aru-cs during the next week Is advised I The production Is Jim the Penman and what makes the picture so 80 absorbing ab ab- undoubtedly Is due to the tact fact ab- ab absorbing I that Lionel Barrymore plays pias the IdIng leidIng leid- leid Ing role In It and his acting making an exciting series of events so natural that one never thinks of the Improbability improbability I ability of such situations arising In real life until after It Is over Lionel Barrymore In the role roli of I James Is a forger torger lie He t las 18 as been born with an uncanny skill for writing other peoples people's signatures He lie HeIS Heis lieis I is the cashier in a bank He lie resorts resorts- to forgery not forgery not to loot the bank but bank but but buto o o 0 gain more dances with the girl h he hei than lovea th than she se h has written on his his pro pro- I i gram pran r Then le he 1 signs a 0 p check k kI I to rave lave her father and the circum- circum I sta sta stas s s bring him Into the clutches dutches of ofa a gang of international crooks It Is Jail all or joining lIe He joins The crooks become too avaricious He lie balks They threaten exposure confronted by this situation he takes the death route It is not the ordinary suicide However however how how- ever leaving beh behind nd it the h h hof of disgrace to be bl horn home bv by hl his family J Jl 11 1 Is one that sweeps the record clean The gang of ot International crooks disappear disappear disappear dis dis- appear never to be heard of or again in one ono of ot the most spectacular SC scenes nes that lias has ever been shown on the screen It is Is ls good entertainment |