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Show DOROTHY DALTON'S RBW PRO-, TOI'LAY "VIVR LA FItAXCE' MAKES HIT; , Dorothy Dalton, the beautiful Thomas H. Ince-Pararaount star, proved an artistic delight to an enthusiastic en-thusiastic audjehce. at the Oak thea- ( tro where "Vive La France!" her( new photoplay depleting war scenes In France, was Bhown for the "rt. time In the city yesterday. That It J la' one of, th.jbeat war pictures I hown here thus far wan the general, J verdict, and that It reflect great 'credit upon the star, , support and producers was universally conceded. .The story of the picture was writ I ten' by H. H. Van. Loan,, a 'wlrter j J of established fame while, the seen-! arlo was the work of C. QardneisSul- i ilvan, a noted screen author. The j! director was R. William Neill and. the production was made under the supervision of Thomas Hi Ince, The narrative has (0 do with tho fortune . of Jenevleve Bouchette, a motion picture star, In New York, who , goes ' to Europe on receipt of news that ;hjr aged father and mother harall 1 been slain by - Huns when they ''in-' j ivaded their home la 'DeachoB,-1 France. The plcfuriaatloa of this 1 event wfv graphic and created a, 3 deep Impression, not unmixed with ! hostility against a nation that can ; practice such frightful barbarhlea !; upon Innocent noncombatants; f J ; ' 'Us Jeneviev facets Jean Rtcard, a fel- low screen player, udcr dramatlo ctr- '.'j, cumstanmes and when ho Is severely f wounded while on a mission for tho 1 Allied commanders she' cares tor him f at a chateau whither ahe has been conveyed by a brutal Hun officer at- I ter he had branded her with "the ' J M . DOftoy'Hy rsAL,T.oM , J craaa.al ahaaia," ta Insignia 'of-.ut-.' tar dagradatloa.r Rloard i. traced. ta J the 'Chateau ay this,-,offleer. and'thejl latter-la killed in a. rtruggle. r Rlcard J eaeapea aad.afterdallverlag hi mea- aafa: U aa-,alUad"gnral, .iMaamaa I Mad,lceatBv mtad.JaaavkTa.1 dan- themalform "of a German ol-" dler lavaa? effort to eeapetbut la, arraatediby a French, squad and, or- I .dared to, be' abat taa-a spy.t She; Jacl .released,-when the "cross orhame"fl U dlaeverwl, y , y - jl L.JeaevIeve aad-Rieard.ara reunited I .UteTiOn .aawt latter tlaally raepvra J (ato-meaftory,-whereupon tehyaraj i aMprld-t Mlaa -Daltoka partrayai. of ; I ,Ula .axaetlag rale:,waa both artistic, I iailatyiag aad proTed'to the fall .1 at, harabUlty. Bdmaad Lowe aa Jeaa I .miaardwaa exeellaat, wall frader?, Mc-Btarr aa the aeeaadreliy Oacaiaav J 'eater) waa aacallaataaough toa-' j'eeat thoroughly dtoUkai. Taomaa OaW aad Bert. Woodruff gave, ,la- I telHgeBt Venditions of" dlaVuH ro4a i' I aad the support generally waall ,1 that could, be' asked for.. The, photo-r' graphy of, th war aeaaea war moot j artistic, The photoplay la oae, that can be seen over and over again with profit to the spectator. , ,1 |