| Show parade co ming keenly awaited here biggest achievement in ill history of screen to be shown here tuesday wednesday and thursday A picture offered to the public as a human document is king the big parade from a stary by laurence stallings coming tuesday for three lays days to the kinsma theater the title s symbolizes the biglay big parade ad of humanity right up ill to the w world ald crisis and the big parade coming back the coming of the phe big faraie parade is keenly awaited first because metro goldwyn ma er gave mr stallings the opportunity of embodying pictorially his knowledge kno Medge and tremendous f feeling elin about the wax wal and second be cau cause e that concern put into the tak ta k of production pio plo a great enthusiasm and 01 utmost ic le source in time tim money skill and personnel following the authors idea it was made primarily a us a simple and human story anti and not as a spectacular movie yet about twelve thousand ie eulars from fort sani sam houston and the membership of several american legion posts took pait in the battle scones scenes and ami the rep rap of life behind the lines line that there might be no flaw in lii ili doiy gen paul B malone and his staff at the foit directed the re rc of the fighting with colonel harry bishop as tile the officer of the lay day malone and the other general officers in these scenes of bell belleau au wood and the argonne commanded some of tile the same units of the second division U S A which they had bad I 1 led e d through the argonne the special aik oik of the vets was to give verisimilitude to the scenes of life in the billet ein the author flom his store of experience lial hail contributed many amusing incidents these were added to by tl the 1 e boys pa par bonal stories and leni lemia ini i bences in iii tile the scenes scene with the french rence pence adoree the featured player in tile the production contributed from her knowledge of peasant fiance miss alss adoree wis was born in lille lilla through throng li the fortunes of the war lier her continental career as lancer dancer and stage player was cut short and she barely escaped the onset on brussels bhele lie had been appealing a french refugee not altogether unlike lir li ha r charac character tei of melisande in ill the big she was obliged to seek seck new fortunes in london and america kllc th faaoi te jolin john gilbert was cast fol foi the arx role of jim apperson Apps on ta the le alicio of the story E executives we ae so pleased with the film iu lushes nightly bened after the lays days that they decided to make the lending leading player the tai stai of tha picture As 1 hull fi i th tb and slin the scandinavian private mr gilbert gillar t h hail id to fisted co cordi Ii in tom obrien and kail dane the former fonner an e cv sellice man inan big game hunter and world adventurer and the latter a dane by matuie as inell sll as cognomen who li ind id played in my four year in Gornia germany nv abrin in i n and dane were finds th hollywood underground soon whispered that these men had lit hit their opportunity Oth otherwise elwise the cast included include hobirt hobart bosworth Bos BosN woith and claire mcdowell a as the parents arents Ti of jim rosita marttini Mar a belgian ackies ac ties as mother of melisande robert ober as a stay at home and claire claira adams as jims american sweetheart of couise in the big parade ali thi master theme is tile the reaction of jim and his buddies buddie and his french girl to the war that dreadful catastrophe which rather than any personal is the villain of the pece king vidor with a fine sense of the authors values directed gilbert adoree obrien anti and dane HP fount them responsive to the great thought and eager to embody the soul crisis of the participants |
