LEESTON PICTURES
"MA3~^ME POMPADOUR."
TALE OF IMMORTAL LOVE
What a way she had with her! Men lavished favours on her. Nations listened to her every word. A king raised her to the heights. Generals bowed to her slightest whim. She caused a war which cost the lives of thousands and the loss of a great tract of land. And; when she was about to lose the favour of her lord and master, Louis XV., of France, she won it back by methods such as only a woman like Pompadour could have devised. She possessed the quality of subtle attractiveness not shared with the multitude. How else can you account for the. fact that she raised herself from an ordinary Parisian home to a position on the right hand of the French throne! How else can you account for the fact that when-a man who had sworn he hated her, met her, he was ready to lay his heart at her feet? One can't vouch for the last statement. History doesn't record it, but legend tells us something of the young poet with whom Madame Pompadour was supposed to have an affaire dv coeur. It is principally about this incident in her life that Paramount's latest release has been built. With Dorothy Gish as la Pompadour and Antonio Moreno the lover, heights of romance which have never been topped, are looked forward to. "Madame Pompadour" will be shown at the Leeston Town Hall" to-morrow night.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3250, 31 August 1928, Page 3
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244LEESTON PICTURES Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3250, 31 August 1928, Page 3
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