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Show I "A CONEY ISLAND PRINCESS" I AT THE LYRIC IAN. 26 AND 21 I Oil and water will not mix that Is an old axiom, but It Is no truer than tho fact that Fifth Avenuo and Coney Island aro not Intended to meet and mlnglo on tho sanio social plane. Fifth Avonuo's manners and garb aro very humorous In the oyes of Coney Island and Coney Island's lack of manners and garb aro equally equal-ly humorous to Tlfth Avenuo whero they aro nqt shockingly offensive. Slices from these two very different differ-ent strata of society meet and try to mingle on the screen of the Lyric Friday and Saturday whero tho Famous Fam-ous Players Film Company prcsentn Ireno Fenwlck, with Owen Mooro, In "A Coney Island Princess," n Paramount Para-mount picture, produced under tho dlrectiton of Del Henderson. It Is an adaptation of Kdward Shrldon's ' successful play "T:.o Pr'ncesa Zlm- j Zlm." Tho result Is ono of tho most fascinating combinations of comody and drama that has been seen on tho screen for a long while. Can you Imagine a Coney Island dancer, Tes-slo Tes-slo Moonoy, Introduced to Fifth Avo-nuo Avo-nuo as tho fiancee of ono of tho "400 ? Can you plcturo her father the ownor of tho "Turkish Dream", struggling Into "open-face rags wld glass skids on his feet and mulllers on his mlts"? Ho Is ofllclally dressed for a reception In honor of his daughter, dau-ghter, and spends mostiof his timo slipping his nchlng foot out of his patent leather shoes. Peto, tho chap to whom Tosslo Is engaged, has wan-derod wan-derod Into her father's show In a seml-lntoxlcated condition after his former flanceo has broken her engagement en-gagement fo him In disgust at .uIb propeniltr for drinking. |