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Show Norma Talmadge in Big Drama at the Utah Theatre Scenes In Hades, said to rival even the most fanciful of Dore's famous drawings, have been reproduced on the screen In Norma Talmadge's latest lat-est First National starring vehicle. "The Branded Woman." which will be shown at the L'tah theatre, commencing commenc-ing today. Because of the elaborate nature of ;the sets called for in this motion pi iture. which was adapted b Anita ; Ixos and Albert Parker from Oliver 1 Bailey's Well known stage play, "Branded," Hugo B.illin was engaged to design them. The result has been an artistic triumph. In addition to beautiful Interiors for private house In fans and the Ritz Hotel, a fashionable boarding school for girls up tho Hudson, the library and other rooms of a wealthy New Yorker's homo are some remarkable scenesln India. The scenes of the For East revoal an open market place and a slaVO-block, slaVO-block, where Norma, as tho heroine, Is sold nl public auction, with don- keys, camels and natives in picturesque pictur-esque costumo lending a touch of "atmosphere." "at-mosphere." But most remarkable of all are the allegortcul scenes In Hades. One Of these sets, which represents a dream of Norma's, wherein she imagines herself her-self dragged dpwn by society Into a hideous whirlpool of sllnio and filth, from which she Is rescued by the man she loves, was filmed In a huge pool discolored and apparently filled with horrible creeping creatures like the "slimy things that crawl with wings" in "The ft I me of the Ancient Mariner" Mari-ner" On the ame bill is shown an exceptionally ex-ceptionally fine comedy. |