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Show 1iii.M:..Mi,lnmnTTTrtTTrnniiimH 1 Cyril Scott in H "The Day of Days" H F amous Players Films Drama-tization Drama-tization of Louis Joseph Vance's Stirring Romance H Walter Edwin Win. . Pjte Hi. Own as Director.-Hi. IH Production of "Who Will Marry iB Mary?", With Mary Fur M t jH Star, Score, a Record. tLI Following John Barrymore in the fa- H nious romantic comedy, "An American IB Citizen," the Famous Players will re- llH lease Cyril Scott, in a dramatization of GH Louis Vance's popular novel, "The Day ifH of Days." Cyril Scott, who won snch EH sensational success on the stage in 'The IH Prince CbRp," "The Lottery Man," 'H "Royal Mounted," and other famous HI plays, is ideally cast in "The Day of flH Days," as a young bookkeeper named iH Perceval, who doesn't know what an fll adventure is until fate chooses him aa 'H the central character in one of the Bifl strangest plots ever written about the 'BBI life of the metropolis. The story de- flil velops into a panorama of emotion., a HH kaleidoscopic drama with New York' at flfl night as a background. 'H Louis Joseph Vance based his exciting ill novel on Oriental fatalism, which as- HH signs to every man his "day of days" 1 wherein he shall range the skies and H plumb the abyss of destiny, alternately Hi its lord and slave. The story takes one from the lowly earth, to the high peaks flfl of romance. Perceval becomes the hero il of a fantastic and fascinating chain of flfl adventures, aidB an heiress to escape a Sflj villain, finds a card in the villain's hat mMm that sends hini to a notorious gambling ffilW house, where he breaks the bank, and fflfl where, later, an attempt to rob him is '$aB frustrated by a timely raid. He effectB lySra his escape in the clothes of one of the hP ofBcers, finds himself in a woman's bed- EPhI room, explains his presence by telling HfflE her he is after a burglar, breaks away SUB aud turns up again in a secret dive, re- faH escapes in time to discover the villain's IkS plot to abduct the heiress, confronts the villain in disguise at a faucy ball, res- mma cues the heiress a second time, becomes WfiR involved in a fight with the villian's uS hired gunmen, forces his way into a IB garage, dashes through the garage doors BBS to an auto and liberty, and finally thwarts the villain's schemes by marrying the beautiful heiress just as the clock de-uotes de-uotes the end of his Day of Days. Rarely have more exciting incidents been produced on the screen. The story may be summed up as a metropolitan extravaganza "f adventure. Cyril Scott as Percival, who is suddenly catapulted out of an uneventful life into a series of thrilling beroies, in which he wins fortune for-tune and love, renders ne of the most in li sting characterizations he has ever portrayed. iiiH Walter Edwin, of the Edison Com-pany, Com-pany, is a director whose pictures possess exceptional power und charm. He hns the gift of imparting his unusual per-sonal per-sonal magnetic force to the actors and actresses who arc working under hi direction. There is undoubtedly an indefinable quality about his work which rivets the attention of the photoplay patron. In his hours of case he is an inimitable story teller; the Scottish burr be knows bow to simulate so well lends value to his Stories anent Hurry Lauder's well, known economic studies. Among many recent triumphs produced pro-duced under Mr. Edwin's direction might lie mentioned "WLen (J nek Meets Greek," "Gamblers of Washinrton,? I "Mary Stuart." "Jnvce of the North Woods" "Who Will Marry Mary?" a Biz-reel feature in which Mary Fuller, the talented ami popular favorite scored a gnat bit. Those who know Mr. Edwin Ed-win declare him a loyal and appreciative j friend to those who have ever done him I service. H |