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Show u 'NANA' BRINGS ZOLA j HEROINE TO SCREEN , i "Nana" brings to the Cameo Theatre screen Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June 10, 11 and 12, the ad-, ventures of Emile Zola's famous courtesan, one of the best known stories in modern literature, as Anna Sten's first American picture, freely adapted from the original by Willard Mack and Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Samuel Goldwyn spent eighteen months and) many thousands of dollars dol-lars in the most painstaking prepa- j ration for the debut of the blonde young actress from Russia. She is the first player to have been completely com-pletely trained in Soviet state stage and screen institutions, and received . wide acclaim throughout the world t for her work in the German-made : "Brothers Karamazov." Appearing with Miss Sten in her i inaugural Hollywood photoplay are Mae Clarke and Muriel Kirkland, as Satin and Mimi, Nana's inseparable cronies, with whom she forms the ' three scarlet musketeers of the gay, i gaslit boulevards of Paris in 1870. 1 Thundering, imperious Richard Ben-1 nett is seen as the dean of the music halls. The two brothers, Andre and George Muffat, into the pattern of ; whose lives Nana works her deadly i witchery, are played by Lionel Atwill ' and Phillips Holmes, respectively. The can-can, that hip-rolling, high-kicking dance with which Paris shocked the world, is given an authentic au-thentic revival in "Nana," and Miss, Sten sings a cynical lament, "That's Love," written especially for the film by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Dorothy Arzner directed this first Anna Sten picture for United Artists release. |