PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1922, Page 13

PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT.

Justin Huntly McCarthy's famous story, "If I Were King," has been picturised under a similar title, and will be shown at the Paramount and Arteraft Theatres again to-day. William Farmum plays the leading character, Francois Villon, the vagabond poet. "The strangest knave in all Paris," says the book. "Scholar, poet, drinker, sworder, drabber, blabber, good at pen, point, and pitcher. In the Court of Miracles they call him the King of the Cockleshells." Villon meets the King's Grande Constable, and from then on enters into the political life of the city, later to lead its army against the rebellious Duke of Burgundy. A strong love interest is introduced by Katherine, the King's kinswoman, with whom Villon becomes infatuated. The settings are excellent, and a special cast has been selected to support William Farnu'm. The supporting picture is "A Self-made Man," featuring William Russell and Benee Adoree. The other films on the programme are varied and interesting, and excellent incidental music is played at each house. "THE STOBM."' , ' For Friday of next week the management of the Paramount and Arteraft Theatres announce "The Storm," a Uni-versal-Jewel production, starring House Peters. The story is intensely interesting, telling of a blase city man who saves a backwoodsman from robbery and possible injury at the hands of an unscrupulous gang. A friendship results ■between the two, and the city man goes into the back country with his new friend. He remains in a tiny trapping hut throughout the winter, a prisoner owing to severe snowstorms. A girl, also detained at the hut, playß a prominent part in the story, each of the men being in love with her. The human, weaknesses of ultra civilisation and the primitive good qualities of the woods are exemplified in'striking fashion, but when spring comes a forest fire brings a dramatic denouement that makes the girl's choice clear to her. *