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Show DRAMATIC SCENES IN FINE ROMANTIC DE MILLE PICTURE Given but five minutes to live, alone with the man who has been commissioned to kill her, a beautifully beauti-fully gowned Russian aristocrat looks wildly around a gorgeous room, desecrated by plundering revolutionists. rev-olutionists. This is one of the great central situations of Cecil De Mille's production, pro-duction, "The Volga Boatman," as adapted by Lenore J. Coffee from Konrad Bercovici's great story of Russia in travail, which will be the feature at the Orpheum theatre on Sunday and Monday. William Boyd Is the crude Volga Boatman, servant turned master, leader of revolutionists. Elinor Fair, De Mille's newest "find," is the girl. What transpires in that room, how the unusual situation is built to a climax, provides the high spot of the strongly virile love story De Mille has constructed against the most grippingly dramatic background back-ground of current history. Previous to this climatic sequence De Mille provides pictorial views of the Volga with the huge boats drawn by human mules and striking pictures pic-tures of the contrast of wealth and poverty before the overthrow. The two strange lovers are carried through an amazing series of .adventures .adven-tures before the story is brought to its conclusion. De Mille has chosen a strong and striking cast to interpret the tale. Featured are William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Victor Varconi, Julia Faye, Theodore Kosloff and Robert Ede-son? Ede-son? I |