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a week or so in advance of “TOM SAWYER”
Immortal Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's famous hero, the battling, whistling youth who sold out the rights to the irksome job of whitewashing a fence for his friends' treasures, while he sat on a barrel and superintended the operation, is coming to town. He will appear at eels we Se LROALTOHON ses c wwe in the person of clever young Jack Pickford, brother of "our Mary," and a boy who knows how to depict American youth on the screen as it has never before been done, incarnating the very spirit of the freckle-faced, whistling lads that all of us Know and love, and many of us have been!
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Mark Twain's boy hero, Tom Sawyer, has long held a unique place in literature, and many of his admirers will be glad to hear that clever young Jack Pickford, of Paramount pictures, has at last brought the real Tom to life on the screen. His impersonation is vivid and drawn with the sure masterful touches that he gave to "Freckles"; Booth Tarkington's the hero of "Seventeen;" and "The Dummy." "Tom Sawyer" Meme DoesSeCoOlsal tn6 ....... INeAtre ON weccece
Bovs of all ages, from ten to ninety, will welcome the advent of Tom Sawyer, the immortal boy hero of Mark Twain, at the ....... TheaBrom li@acielsets's ONO LOSS 4 Star than clever Jack Pickford, brother of the famous Mary Pickford, will take the part. Mr. Pickford has long been an admirer of Mark Twain's, and especially of "Tom Sawyer." He has not forgotten what it was to steal jam or raid the doughnut jar, and better than any other young actor has succeeded in bringing to the screen the very incarnation of American boyhood.
Jack Pickford as Mark Twain's immortal "Tom Sawyer" in a ParaPeat uOvODLaY Of LUnaL name, 1S cto appear at the ....... lneatre on tts eer 1011S 1s the latest of a long line of exceptionally successful
=young boy roles in which Mr. Pickford, the younger brother of "our Mary," has appeared. These are notably: "Seventeen," by Booth Tark
ington; "Great Expectations," by Dickens; "Freckles," by Gene Stratton Porter: "The Varmint," by Owen Johnson, and others. As the redoubtable Tom, Mr. Pickford has proved that his doughnut-stealing, jameating days are not far behind, or that at least he has not forgotten them, so thoroughly has he injected the very spirit of boyhood through every scene of the picture.
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