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Show . U When An Irate Father Shoots To Avenge Honor If a girl's father, in a blind rage motivated by wounded pride and love for his daughter, shot the man she loved, what would be her natural na-tural and involuntary reactions toward to-ward her parent? The answer can bo found only in life, not in university univer-sity text books. In "Coquette," now at the Granada Theatre, Salt Lake, Miss Piekford Plays a young Southern 'girl who is faced by this situation. Her 'first feeling is one of barred toward her father, and utter indifference as to his face. She never wants to see him or speak to him again. She refuses to help him in his fight for his life. Then, with the passing of the months, and the numbling of her first shocked grief, comes forgiveness forgive-ness of her father. In one of the wo-t thnliingly dramatic scenes of the picture, she blackens the memory mem-ory of the man she loved in order to save her father's life. Director Sam Taylor and Miss I'ickford believe that these would be the normal reactions of a young oman under the strain of a similar crlsis. The emotional development of the little flirt from her gay, unthinking un-thinking girlhood to her matured and tragic womanhood is protrayed by M'ss Piekford in this story, which represents an advanced step into roles of powerful contemporary significance. signi-ficance. "Coquette" -was filmed as a' 100 per writ talker and will not be shown in Ule silent version. |