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Show oo Ifil. MIDGE "DE LUXE JUNE" "De Luxe Annie." Norma Talmadgc's latest Select picture, which will be shown Wednesday at the Ogden theater, thea-ter, is vastly different from the aver-ago aver-ago crook play, and, by the same token, tok-en, infinitely superior. It is the story of a finely bred woman whose husband hus-band is Interested in criminal psychology psychol-ogy and who Is herself transformed into a criminal by an accldant. Tho crime she practices is the "de luxe game." an adaptation of the old badger game in which the woman poses as a seller of de luxe editions and inveigles some individual with a weakness for pretty girls, whereupon her male confederate con-federate breaks into the scene and blackmails the victim whom he has found in an embarrassing position with his "wife." Norma Talmadge is especially suited for the title role in this screen drama since it calls for not only beauty, style and a high order of artistry in the star, but also for a'n innate intelligence in-telligence and an intellectual background back-ground vouchsafed by the gods to but few of us. Miss Talmadge's performance, perform-ance, however and her myriad admir- ers need hardly be told this brings out every shade of emotiqnal feeling in her portrayal of this crook part, lifting it far out of the commonplace by the force of her vivid personality as well as by the odd psychological twist of the story. "De Luxe Annie" appeared originally original-ly as a two-part story in the Saturday Evening Post; later it was made into a play by Edward Clark and achieved considerable success in New York. After considerable competition for the photoplay rights to this metropolitan stage "hit," Select pictures corporation corpora-tion secured it for Norma Talmadge's Select Star Series. Tho scenario for the screen production was prepared by Paul West and tho direction is by Roland West. Miss Talmadge's leading man Is Eu gene u isnen, wno perrormeu a similar function in "Ghosts of Yesterday" and "By Right of Purchase" for this star; another Important male role has been entrusted to Frank Mills, whose polished pol-ished acting is familiar to both playgoers play-goers and film fans. Other leading members of the cast include Edwards Davis, Fred R. Stanton, Joseph Burke, Edna Hunter, David Burns, and little Harriet Jenkins a winning aggregation aggrega-tion in the support of a supreme star. |