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Show Humor and Pathos Are Blended in "The Rouiad Up" Roscoe Arbuckle. long a favorite in I short comedlc-a. makes his bow as the .star in feature pictures as "Slim Hoover," the fat sheriff. in George iMelford's production of "The Hound I Up." for Paramount, w hich is now showing at the Alhambra theatre in it he has a role which not only offers I him every opportunity for the expression expres-sion of hla individual typo of humor but presents htm as un actor of varied talents, hitherto unsuspected by his admirers. Tho Round Up," written by Edmund Ed-mund Day, was produced in N v. Yori In August. 1907. A hlghlv dramatic story of Indians and rough and ready plainsmen, the big scene of the stage play was a battle In a narrow Arizona, canyon. In the screen version, this jscene, staged In natural surroundings t j with hundreds of Indians, frontiers-1 frontiers-1 'men and soldiers, gains tremendously tremendous-ly in Its melodramatic appcaJ I Supporting Mr Arbucklo Is an un-: un-: usual cast which Includes Tom Tollman, Tol-lman, who also wrote the scenario for I'The Lound Up," Mabel Julienne : SCOtt, Irving Cummlngs. Wallace j Beery, Jan0 Acker. Edward Suthcr-i Suthcr-i land. Guy Oliver, Luclen Littlefield. I and Jane Wolf. I 00 |