PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT
Mark Twain's boy hero, HuckleberryFinn, has reached he screen ; he is the leading figure in a film that follows faithfully the adventures of Huckleberry and Tom Sawyer, and this will be the star feature of the new change of bill at the Paramount and Artcraft Theatres to-night. So one has succeeded better than Mark Twain in 1 portraying boy life along the Mississippi River, and the immortal work in screes form is rich in local colour and atmosphere. The beloved vagabond, Huckleberry Finn, makes an .ideal screen hero, and youthful Lewis Sargent handles the role with treat skill. the second star of the new ill is "Copperhead," featuring Lionel Barrymore, in the role of Not-Under-stood Milt Shanks, who during the Civil War was branded as a shirkerjx but unknown to his own family and friends was doing even a bigger job for Abraham Lincoln.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 86, 8 October 1920, Page 3
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147PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 86, 8 October 1920, Page 3
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