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Show 'OLIVER twist; ey DICKENS " Charles Dickens first wrote the story of "Oliver Twist" for a magazine maga-zine known as Bentloy's Miscellany, and on the first of January, 1837, the first chapters appeared under the title ti-tle of "The Adventure of Oliver Twist." Dickens sold the story for practically a song. Shortly after his death, George Gruikshank, the caricaturist cari-caturist who is responsible for the illustrations, claimed that he was constructively con-structively the inventor of Oliver Twist by designing the plates which conveyed to Dickens tho conception of the characters and the situations worked up by him into this novel. The claim, however, has been abundantly abun-dantly disproved, though the extraordinary extra-ordinary vitality of Grulkshank's illustrations illus-trations and their closeness to the no. tion which Dickons had indicato a remarkable agreement between author and artist. The book made a financial success and Dickens himself first proposed to J adapt the novol for the stage. Shortly after he had completed the story, he called upon a famous London theatrical theatri-cal manager who told him of the utter impracticability of "Oliver Twist" for any dramatic purposes. Later it was prepared for the stage, and the late Sir Henry Irving took the part of Bill Slices, the adaptation being made by J. Comyns Carr, the distinguished English critic and dramatist. "Oliver Twist" was seen on the speaking stage for a number of years, and was revived in 1912 by an all-star cast headed by Marie Doro, with Nat Goodwin Good-win as Fagin, Lynn Harding as Sikes and Constance Collier as Nancy. In the photodramatic version, James Young, for the Lasky company has selected the best both from the novel and from the stage version. He has made this photodrama with a wonderful wonder-ful fidelity and attention to detail and presents the story in amanner that will be appealing to both young and old. The Lasky company feels that it has made an ideal selection of characters. In addition to Marie Doro as Oliver, . It presents the noted star, Hobart Bos-worth, Bos-worth, as Bill Sikes, Tully Marshall as Fagin, Raymond Hatton as The Artful Dodger, Elsie Jane Wilson as Nancy, and .Lames Neill as Mr. Brown low, "Oliver Twist" Is tho Paramount Para-mount picture at the Alhambra theatre tomorrow and Monday. |