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Show H "MICE AND MEN1' CELEBRATED SUCCESS IS PICTURED H If you were taken out of a found- BH ling home by a man of culture and, I, through his untiring devotion and personal per-sonal efforts, were developed into a highly educated, charming society belle, and if, when you had attained this enviable position, you were forced to choose between this man to whom you owed everything in the world ex-cept ex-cept life itself and a dashing young I army officer, which would you choose? 'l That is the dilemma which Mar guerite Clark faces as Peggy in the Famous players Film company's adaptation adap-tation of Madeline Lucette Ryley's cel-; cel-; ebrated theatrical success, "Mice and Men." The story centers about Peggy, a foundling who has been adopted by a philosopher with the idea of marrying H her if she proves to develop into the H sort of girl that he has pictured as his H ' ideal. This student, Mark Embury, m I has decided that the women of the m present generation are not desirable H wives and that only by training one V according to his own views can he ever H hope to marry a girl that will prove B companionable. So Peggy has been H' taken from the Foundling Homo and V trained in the way she should go. But If ; the philosopher's bestlaid plans, like B all those of mice' and men, go badly B awry. Fotf there appearB on the scene his nephew, a soldier who returns HL from the war a hero. Hu Youth calls to youth, and Peggy I1 finds herself in the distressing dilem ma of choosing between grateful appreciation ap-preciation and the importunate wooing of her impetuous soldier. It is in the presentation of the girl's mental sufferings suf-ferings as she is torn between the conflicting con-flicting emotions that Miss Clark does her best work, though she is irresistibly irresist-ibly charming in her interpretation of the girl as she gradually develops into beautiful maturity under the careful guidance of her doting guardian. It is safe to say that in her love scenes with Captain George Lovell, Miss Clark captures more than the single heart of her screen lover. |