"THE SONG OF LOVE."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 13

"THE SONG OF LOVE."

A NO MIA TALX&DGB FILH. "FLAMING PASSIONS." Commencing to-racrrov, © new programme, containing cnnsu&l featarw, will bo presented at the Liberty Theatre. . "Flaming PiSsions" i« the screen adaptation of the "Lncretia. Lombard," by Kathleen N orris, vriih Monte Blue and Ircno Rich heading a. distinguishpd cast of players. Ia book lorm, tee story enjoyed eaormoufl vogue, being bailed 53 ono of tho most striking novels of the pMi decade. It deals with a 1 your™ and pretty womaa tied down to an old man, .vtho is an invaJid and needs constant cure. Ai a result, tho woman is deprived of a'.! the joys and riches held by life, and fer.ls youth slipping down tho retrogrsdo lilt elic njeoU tlra miitt of her heart. In easting tho players, Director jack Condway and Producer Hurry Itapf sifted and considered every star of note to get true characterifatioM. Monte Bluo and Irene I'ich were tho pick. Xho picture brings out the wretchedness of a loveless marriage. Lucretia, utill voang and pretty, finds herself chested, the wife of a conformed invalid who bullies hex. An extra stolen dose of opiate, administered by himself, ends the life of her husband—and sho is tree, but only to lind herself embroiled in a triangle so hectic that her former difficulties seem as nothing. How two vomer, battle for the love ci a man, and how fato steps in at the eleventh hour, etaging a spectaculir forest hie to settlo tho drama, i-j shown in this Warner Brothers' classic of the screen. It ia enid that r.o pains have be'-Ji spared to make "Lucretia Lombard" as great a picture as it w;:s a L-rcat book. Critics who have already viewed the picture say it is a triumph in every respect. Monte Biuc and Irene Rich will be remembered everywhere for their brilliant work in *T3rass,'' the screen adaptation of Charles G. Norris, who is tho husband of the author of."Lucretia Lombard." Others in the cast are Marc McDermctt, Alcc. B. Francis, John Roche, Lucy Beaumont, Otto Hoffman, and Norma Schoarcr.

The second big feature is one that must GUreiy excite general interest amongst pic-ture-goera. In it Xornia Taimadgo hae stolen a march 011 (lie makers of sheik photoplays by introducing the OuW Kail dancing girl to Hollywood. And those who have seen tho fiery scenfs bot'-vcen Joseph. Schildkraut, in hia Arabian role, and Norma. Talmadge as the Ouled Kail dancing girl in "The Song of Love." predict that the sheik will go down to ignominious oblivion when both fsminino ar.d masculine theatre patrons see Norma in the sensuous dsr'ecs of tho mysterious Orient. Y/hen Norma mado her firet appearance as an Ouied Nail dancer at the United Studios, tljoro. was such a demand to flee her in her dancing costume that tho director, Chester Franklin, was forced to put up three sets of excluding "flats" to keep out visiting actors and actresses. But they got in somehow and looked through the angles of tho canvas ecreena, climbed up tho parallels, craned around corners, and peeped through knot holes just the samo. It'e a new Norma tho world will see in "Tho Song of Love," a Norma, who displays all the fiery emotion of which, she is capable. As an Ouled Nail dancing girl Norma ma'.;e3 all tho sheiks of Hollywood look insipidly pale. This is a drama of the Algerian Sahara, produced by Joseph M. Schneck, and released through First National. Carefully selected musical items by the Liberty Quality Orchestra, under Mr Howard Moody, will be provided.