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Show Divorce Film to Show ab Al--hambra Opening Next Thuisday I 'Why change our husband, since you are practically certain ;t want him back?'' 1 the tlienie of " The New Iv.iri, Idea," with Alice Brady In the ptellar role, ii cannol be charged that 'the d-:i Is cribbed l'rotn I ' Mlll'.'tJ "Why Change Voui w it.-." however, for "The' New- York Idea" IS 0 fumous' American .u'.ric drama first played In tscttt by Minnie Maddern Flake, and revived re-vived three or four yoai ;o li New York bv Grace Gi'onro. The New York blea is, we learp, to marry for whim stnd divorce for the sarin n.-jon; In othef words, divorce in hsir- and repent at leisure-. As (the capricious heroine, Cynthia Ivars-lake, Ivars-lake, Mins Brady has somethlnK nsarei .1 cyMICUJ ion.- lil.u in i n i- I'.uij i.v" .irt plcturea have afforded her, thougr she brings her well-known .motional ability Into play more loan once Throughout the picture ahe wear: Hiimptuous clothes, as do the otliei women the caat, as well aa aeveral hundred extras who are used for bail room, wedding and race track aoenea Aside from the plot the film would have Interested merel as a picture oi New Yoi w aociets Belmont Pnrk race tra k on Long Island. The lMplng Rock Hunt Club and other favorite haunts of the Idle ricli are used as backgrounds for tin unfolding of the story, which abounds in divorces larhich may be said to 'make it an accural,- picture of smart aoclety. Lowell Sherman, long a Broadway favorite in stage pia. and the last tew years a familiar fa In pictnrea, plays opposite Miss Brady; ,the role of her first and final choice as a husband. But before she comes to her rinai decision ahe be trot ha herself her-self to another man. playet i t.'corge Howell, p newcomer t . filmdom. but no novice in acting. Hl divorced wife is played most bewltchingls' by liedda Copper, wife of lh pqpular DeWolf ! Hopper of light opera fame, others in u. i'.' iimioi' i-iiosen rnsi are j.iouei fape, Marie Burke, Julia liuricv and II. J Hockey. Herbert Blacfhe, who has directed n ' ' ' i r-s for many of the leading stars, among there Kthel Barrymore, x.izi-mova x.izi-mova In The rirat" and "8tropgei Than Death." Kulth Storey. Emilj Stevens. Florence Reed and Prank Keen.m. was director f this produc lion, which is a R'calart offprint and qiulto up to the Realart standard. "Thi Xew York Idea" will be shown for thir- daya at the Alhamhra, beginning next Thursday. |