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Show THEM 11 SCORES li IRISH DRAMA AT UT&H "Kathleen Mavourneen is a concrete! film example of what most producers ' strive to accompllrh but fall to obtain. , The picture version of the poem may I be said to have no superiors and few j equals in the field of motion picture production. The old Irish poem has 'been transplanted into scenes of exceeding ex-ceeding beauty and realism. The Irish' : peasantry,' the squire's home thei ladies and lords and the flashes of, I Ireland's picturesque. cottages form an i effective background seldom seen, 'even in these day of unusual picture I making. The comedy in "Kathleen Mavourneen" Mavour-neen" is natural, well sustained, free irom the aVerage motion picture va-1 .riety of forced rumor. Charles Bra-1 bin has seen to it -that the scenes are evenly balanced without too much comedy or too much sentiment, and lot me.go on record as saying that, Mr. ' Drftbinha"s" put' himself on the map as ja director of note. He has placed hint-self hint-self in the front row of directorial talent. tal-ent. j Theda Bara. who must always be , reminiscent of vampires, and their ways, in her transition from worldly woman to simple peasant maid explored ex-plored and untried and new field and gives one of the best performances of I her career. Marc McDermott, finished 'actor that he is, is delightful as the I villainous squire; but neither Mr. McDermott Mc-Dermott nor Miss Bara can claim all 1 the honors. Raymond McKec, who 1 plays Terence, is a boy. May we see jhim often. lie has a happy faculty of i representations that bespeaks big things for him as a motion picture actor. ac-tor. Iidward O'Connor, old-time Edison player, joins the throng of other ex- Edisonites in this picturo and gives his rolo in a characteristically happy manner. The other players who complete com-plete this most satisfactory cast arc Jennie Dickerson. Marcia Harris, Henry Hen-ry Hallam, Harry Grlpp..and Morgan Thorpe. Now showing at Utah theater for remainder of the week, together with a rip-roaring comedy. tf |