Show Scrambled Wives Pleases at Gem i I Marguerite Clark Clarl has scored the tri triumph trl- trl I of her brilliant career In her return to o the screen In a picture version of that sprightly stage comedy Scrambled Wives v I Ies es which yesterday opened a three- three da days days' s run at tho Gem theatre Miss 1 Clark Clar plays the part of ot Mary LUcile Lucile Luclle Lu- Lu cile Smith a young QU g girl who thinks s she has a dark and terrible past to hide 1 That hat secret In her life is that as a result of ot a perfectly Innocent boarding scho school l escapade she has been rushed Into a mar- mar ilage with a l boy boj oy whom she scarcely knew Luckily lly she was rescued from this embarrassing situation almost before the ceremony was completed The fhe marriage I was quietly annulled and Mary Lucile packed off to Europe to forget her mad I prank Coming back acl she falls in love I with Larry McLeod It Is a desperate case of love at first sight on both sides Mary MaryI I I Lucile Luelle conceals her past from Larry and accepts an invitation to a house party at ather ather her sisters sister's s house Who Vho should turn up I among the guests but her husband ex-husband now more or less happily married to a pretty and jealous young joung woman Complications Complications begin the moment Mary Lucile crosses the threshold of the country house home e and the tangle of at misunderstandings goes goeson goeson goeson on from one laughable scene to 10 another I ending in a climax climas of rapid fire j Incidentally Incidental y there are settings of great beauty throughout the picture c. c i ballroom scene In a country house and no I little opportunity for the display of Miss Clarks Clark's skill as an actress In delineating the emotions through h which Mary Lucile Lucile I passes on her way to happIness It Is the kind of part In which Miss Clark has made her greatest successes and endeared her- her helf belt to millions of devotees of the screen Leon P I in the role of or Larry McLeod Mc eod Is Miss Mies Clarks Clark's leading man Ralph Bunker Dunker gives an amusing Impersonation impersonation impersonation imper Imper- of John the blunderIng blunderIng blundering blunder- blunder Ing young joung chap with whom Mary Lucile Is rushed Into marriage Other prominent members of the cast who provide adI ad- ad support ot of th the star are Florence I Martin Vivian Lee Alice l I Mann J Frank rank i Badgley America John Mayer Maver I T fa S S. S Harry Herry Fisher Wesley Vesley Jenkins Jenkins Jenkins Jen Jen- kins Ada Neville and Emma Wilcox Edward H H. Griffith directed Scrambled Wives Vives which was adapted from the play by Adelaide Matthews and Martha Stanley Stanle Stan- Stan I le lej ley It Is Miss Clarks Clark's first production from her own company and Is released by byI I First l Pictures Inc |