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Show 1 1 ' -- j THEATRES John Barrymore Scores in 'Lotus Eaters' Showing at Orpheum 1 Although Jacques Lenoi was twenty-! five yearn old. h.- had never seen ai j woman. Ths,t is the unusual situation nchlch dominates "The Lotus Eater.'- a First' National attraction, starring John Bui--rymore. aTid personally directed by, Mai-shall Neilan whlen is at tlio cr- i phaum until Saturday night. ; Harry more. the foremost actoi ' me nr, iujra mij pari 01 i,eno', whose fa tin iif.-anse of a domestic jtraged) h.d made the young lid j promise not to leave their .ulu. .the Psyche, " until he was twenty-'five twenty-'five years of age. The story By the will of an eccentrh millionaire million-aire father, Jacques Lenoi gTew up on j a yacht nt sea and was almost twenty-fix twenty-fix iii fiT. in- w r' suv a woman. So in was not unnatural that he should 'fall in love with the first om- h" met. 'a pretty oung society girl named Madge 'anee -Th, y wer. DtiarrieM very promptly, much against the Will of Madge's mother, who had wished a ;rich but elderly man named John ir- 'son for a son-in-law. Then- happiness was short-lived. Jacques' father had provided that only a thir.l of the estate should go t , hi (son. if he married before he was Iwan- Ity-five. and the discovery was a shock to Madge, ho had always lived In luxury. The young couple, quarreled, in a fit of spleen. Jacques accepted the Invitation of 0 navaj aviator he had mt t to make .1 dangerous trial trip in a. dirigible with him. tenting a new K-i-s that would make dirigibles reach a higher altitude than ever before. be-fore. The i:ls proved 1 failure, and after days ubove the . .1 Jaofries found himself wrecked on a small island. 'ii the lall 1 I were people who had been shipwrecked there at various times and ui'r. handed together under the leadership of a man they called the Dean There was no charge for, the in . 1 : ,( life, the clothing v. 1 that of the ancient. Greeks, ctadsen f.i Its freedom and beauty, mid th community com-munity lived iti Idyllic happiness and peace. They received Jacques with every kimlne.s:- and did their host to make him happy, e-.'peclaliy a small boy called Jocko, and one of the girls of the island. ailed Mavis, with whom he soon fnuml himself mini hi love. ! Uui the memory of his wife at home I made him long lo get hack. At last the Deun called a meeting of ciw men ..." the island. They voted to let I Jacques have a boat they had kept hidden for Just such a purpose, and 'the, Dean gave him a .hart of in. inland, in-land, warning him that be must de-tros de-tros it it he decided never to return. Hack in New York. Jacques found himself disgust? d with the sights in the doncehalla and n the streets, af-'ter af-'ter th- fine clean living on the island, i His -.ifc- had married John Carson, belieing Jacques to be dead. Sinn-imoned Sinn-imoned to choose between the two. she asked for 1 1 1 ti to decide, and the next clay both men received word from hor thai she had g"n with a count and I wished them the best of luck DU-jgustetj DU-jgustetj with the life of B BO-callOd Av-llllaatlon Av-llllaatlon and longing for his free and happy Island, Jacques hastened to go back and in his former . il I reunited to Mj I ji ! It Is an entran. lng rtory graphically jtold. With the feature 1 a "Tootier-Ivilli "Tootier-Ivilli Trolley'" comedy. r ''"" - oo |