"FEET OF CLAY."

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1925, Page 5

"FEET OF CLAY."

A- wonderful Paramount picture is to be shown in Wellington-to-morrow,-the feature being "Feet of-Clayj" a Cecil B. de Mille production which is coming to the De Luxe Theatre. In "Feet of Ciay," from the novel by Margaretta Tuttle, the story of a society girl who fought for the man she loved,-her husband, realising that happiness, meant more than wealth and position, is told in a series of gripping scenes. The film opens with » gay party in progress at a fashionable California!! seaside resort, showing Amy Loring and Bertha Lansell, her step-sis-ter, both in love with Kerry Harlan, a young, engineer. Tony Charming, a wealthy idler is also attracted to Amy. ■An aquaplane race is here introduced, and a bevy of beautiful girls chosen by the producer tp ride surfboards behind racing launches. An. accident to the board on which Amy and young'Harlan are -riding throws both into the water;' and before they are rescued, a shark attacks them and the engineer's foot is mangled. Amy and Kerry marry, to the intense jealousy of Bertha, who; is married to a fashionable doctor. Then Amy is faced with the proposition of working for herself and her crippled hisband.'■ Amy becomes a mannequin and is a success, though not socially as mannequins have no place in high society. Her husband becomes involved in a scandal with Bertha, and it is only an accident that prevents tragedy coming to the Harlan flat. How de Mille has worked "put a gripping climax is best left to patrons to\Je'arn. Included in the many typical de Mille scenes of splendour are glimpses';of dances on glass floors; sumptuous beach parties; society frolics costing, many thousands of pounds ; wonderful frockirig; and. a story that teaches the lesson of renunciation when love comes. "Feet of Clay" is described as a brilliant spectacular production from the screen's master director; a real Paramount triumph in every sense of the term. ■'"■• ' •/• .. ■'