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“MOVIES"
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DEE-LIGHTED!
Favorite Films Finally Find Frances First
AS the late ex-president Theodore Roosevelt would have Z\ said it, with a smile upon his beaming face, — “Dee-L** lighted!”
That’s the way Mrs. Joel McCrea (Frances Dee to you! ! has delighted her fans with the work she is doing recentl) before the lenses. Having had an enviable “bit” in “One Man’s Journey” which was one of The Pictures of the Month, she has graduated to bigger and better things; so much so that there are three pictures in which she appears which must be given special honors as the Three Pictures of
some dav may separate their little family.
When Meg marries Mr. Brooke in spite of Jo’s pleadings, Jo grows exceedingly bitter and spurns a proposal from her girlhood sweetheart, Laurie.
She leaves home and goes to New York, where she meets Prof. Bhaer, a scholar and philosopher of high ideals. Under his influence Jo gradually casts out her bitterness. The professor also helps her with her writing, leading her into literary efforts of a higher type which promise her fame and success.
the Month.
This is the second time in the four years’ history of “Movies” magazine that three pictures have received that award simultaneously, but here they are:
“Little Women”, “Blood Money” and “Trouble Shooters”.
“Little Women,” from the old-time novel by Louisa May Alcott, is the story of four sisters, who, under the guidance of an understanding mother, Marmee, and their father, Mr. March, mature into idealistic lovely young women. The girls are Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth. (Frances Dee has the role of “Meg.”)
Of them all, Jo, while impulsively more generous, more brilliant and charitable than the rest, causes Marmee the most worry. Artistic, gripped with the fire of desire to write, she is racked by a complex about love — fearing it for herself and for her sisters, and resenting the fact that it
In Jo’s absence from home Laurie finds happiness with Amy, and they are married. The marriage brings Jo a peculiar sense of relief, as though she had escaped something.
When Jo leaves New York to be at the bedside of Beth, who is dying, Bhaer realizes she is taking his heart with her, but he cannot speak of it in the face of her grief and terror and because he is wise enough to know that she is untouched by his own emotion.
Beth dies, and later the March family is reunited, Meg happy as a yong mother, and Amy happy with Laurie. Jo, while happy in her work, for success has come to her, soon comes to realize that her life is empty, that she has erred in allowing love to escape her. There is a gnawing in her heart which she cannot understand.
The cure is made clear to her when ( Cant’d on page 48)
Below in circle: — A scene from “ Little Women"
Below : — Frances Dee in a scene from “ Blood Money."