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Show Gloria Swanson in Big Thrilling Picture at Alhambra Al-hambra Today-Gloria Today-Gloria Swanson. beautiful nnd accomplished ac-complished star of "Under the- LasIi," hor new Paramount picture, which comes to the Alhambra theatre today. 1h ambitious to be a writer. So alio Jots down her thought In prose and verse whenever she has tho time Sho is an admirer of Kobert Louis SteVen-son SteVen-son and other famous authors and ruads a ront deal. "Then H nr.irmifr finer, it seems to me" sho aajs, "than to be able to write beautifully or powerfully or both." Sam Wood directed "Under tho IiRh" which was adapted by J. E. Nash from tho play "Tho Shumallto" by Edward Knoblock and Claudo Askew. As-kew. Tho story deals vlth a yountr woman who is married l'f by her sordid relatives rel-atives to a rough fanatical Boor farmer far-mer on tho veldt In South Africa. He triiats her UM bin shivn and threaten her constantly with hlt v. hip One doy a young EntclLshman enters her life and sho falls in love with him. Tho discovery of tho truth by tho husband provokes developments of the most dramatic charactor. Miss Swanson's leading man Is Mah-lon Mah-lon Hamilton, woll known player and others In the oxcollent cast Include Russell Simpson. Lillian Lelghton. Lincoln Steadman, Thena Jasper und Clarence Ford |