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Show Dumas Story on Mario Screen A story by Alexandre Dumas never before drmaatized, has been translated to the screen, starring John Loder and Lenore Aubert, with Martin Kosleck, Charles Dingle, Fritz Kortner. Eva Gabor and Eduardo Cian-nelli Cian-nelli in leading supporting roles. The title of this adventure-romance adventure-romance is "The Wife of Monte Cristo," produced by PRC now playing at the Mario Theater, which is based on a story published pub-lished by the great French romanticist ro-manticist in serial form, using the famed characters of "The Count of Monte Cristo" Produced on a lavish scale, most of the action of the picture takes place in Paris and its environs, en-virons, showing the glamorous French capital as it was in 1830. with authentic reproductions of the old Latin Quarter in its most picturesque heydey, the infamous in-famous Tuilleries Prison, where were incarcerated the guillotine "fodder," the ancient walls of Paris and the medieval architec- tu:-e that still survived in that period. It is at the time when a devastating dev-astating plague is sweeping through Paris, and De Villefort, prefect of police, and his henchmen, hench-men, the notorious Danglars and Maillard, are secretly selling spurious "medicine" at exhorb-itan exhorb-itan prices to the public. Loder is ideallv cast in his sinister role,, and displays his prowess as a swordsman in a great duel with Kosleck, an expert ex-pert with the foils. Miss Aubert, the lovely Viennese actress, is a volatile firebrand in the title role, and Charles Dingle will be remembered for the finest role of his career as Danglars. |