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Show ins noun house PLEfiSES EVERVBODY No Home Cooking But Excellent Excel-lent Comedy in "39 East" at the Aihambra Theatre The ambitious country girl who goes to the great, wicked elty to earn her living, and finds there bad. naugh-tv naugh-tv men who are willing, nay. anxious to pay all her bills Is no novelty to the screen. But the kind of girl that little Miss Constance Binnc portrays I In "39 East." w hich comes to the Aihambra Ai-hambra next Sunday and Monday. Is a novelty, and the plot development P novel, too, for this particular heroine did not go wronjr. but plugged along doggedly, even after her purse was empty, her room rent overdue, and her courage fast oozing away. "39 East" Is a boarding house shabbily shab-bily genteel, and the scenes therein arc about the best comedy we have seen In many a day. The Inmates of the house Include the usual types, the gushing lady who has seen better days, and won't let anybody forx' t Jit; the tart spinster, the Jaunty salesman, sales-man, the sentimental sifters, the star boarder, the ever-susplclous landlady - and tho aforementioned girl, not the fast little "chicken" variety, nor yet the coylngly sweet. Idiotically Innocent In-nocent girl, but a ladylike, demure, sensible, sweet, wholesome girl a girl who Is typical of thousands of slaan-minded slaan-minded girls of America with a fine-sense fine-sense of honor, no silly affecurtlon, and a sturdy purpose to succeed. No finer characterization of American Ameri-can girlhood has ever been shown than that whPh Miss Binney gives In the role of Penelope Penn. plucky, sedate, and Independent little Yankee, as real j and convincing as "Jo" In "Little Wo- men," tho sort of girl one wishes all I American girl;: would be. Miss Binney created this delightful role two years ago in the stage pro-'ductlon, pro-'ductlon, which ran for an entire season I In New York, and for another whole i season in Cleveland, Chicago and Bos-I Bos-I ton. so the young Restart star had a long familiarity with the role to bring ; to the screen production, which was made under the capable direction of I John S. lt.obert.son. who directed Miss i B.'nney in "Erstwhile Susan," her flrsl I Healart picture Rcffinald Denny has the male lead, and with fhnt excep- tlon the stag'- east has been used In the screen version so that the photoplay photo-play is an adequate sequel to the stage , tuccess. |