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Show March Ranks His New Role Equal to Best vt Fredric March plays, what he con- siders, the second outstanding screen I role of his brilliant film career, in "Death Takes a Holiday," the Paramount Para-mount picture directed by Mitchell Leisen, which comes to the Cameo Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, May 6, 7 and 8. March ranks only his memorable performance in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with this, , his latest part. "Death Takes a Holiday," the screen play for which was written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman from the famous stage play by Alberto Casella, presents March, in the starring role, as a "shadow," Death. It follows the Broadway play which was adapted into English by Walter Ferris. For three days, Death ! takes a holiday from his grim task to teste life as a human-being, to discover, if he can, what makes life so sweet, and himself, Death, so ab-i ab-i horrent. I Pleasures Tire Him j March, in the disguise of a hand- some, adventurous gentleman, ap- pears at a house party and throws himself into the gay pastimes of the sophisticated group. All the pleasures pleas-ures which men find so absorbing quickly tire him, and he is about convinced that all human life is worthless illusion. The thrill of love, he has saved for his last test, and his dashing manner and handsome presence win him several opportunities opportu-nities to test his emotion. To each of the beautiful young women present, March makes love in turn. But none of them can create the true emotion of love in him, until he meets Grazia, played by Evelyn Venable, and with her, he learns the greatness of an immortal love just as the clock strikes the close of his holiday. |