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Norma Shearer starred in the first talkie version, with F red ric March (above) and Leslie Howard and 0. P. Heggie (below) in the roles played by Gene Raymond, Brian Aherne and Ian Hunter, in the new film. the barmaid, who becomes the victim of Hyde’s sadistic cruelty. Her change from the buxom, laughing music hall barmaid to the woman haunted by terror from which she is afraid to escape, was brilliantly portrayed. Lana Turner played Dr. Jekyll’s fiancee, Beatrix, and Donald Crisp her father, whose disapproval of Dr. Jekyll and his theories, and his stronger disapproval of him as a son-in-law, sent Jekyll deeper and deeper into his foul life as Mr. Hyde, and to his ultimate end. “ The Sea Wolf ” was one of Jack London’s most grim and powerful stories. You may remember the late Milton Sills as the brutal sea captain. Wolf Larsen, in the silent film version Edward G. Robinson took this role in the new film. It was something of a reversion to the type of roles in which he first made his name on the screen. Then, you may remember, he appeared in a succession of gangster roles, beginning with “ Little Caesar.” The character of Wolf Larsen had much cf the gangster in it: its callous brutality, its vanity, and its strong streak of cowardice—in this case fear of admitting any weakness in himself, since he despises vanity and regards brute force and rule by fear as the only means of asserting his superiority. This forces him to keep secret a physical weakness that he is powerless to control—violent headaches followed by temporary recurrent blindness. One of the best scenes in the film showed the discovery of this secret by a writer who is an unwilling passenger aboard Larsen’s helLship. This role, one of the finest portrayals which Edward G. Robinson has given us, was certainly a complete change from his recent biographical studies of great men who have struggled against adversity and prejudice to improve the lot of mankind, such as he played in “ Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet ’’ and “ This Man Reuter.” One of the best of Dashiell Hammett’s many thrillers, “ The Maltese Falcon,” has twice been made. It is the story of a quest for the black porcelain statuette of a falcon, richly encrusted with jewels, once a gift of the Knights of Malta to Charles of Spain. Samuel Spade, a cold-blooded, suave private detective is engaged by two queer men and aided by a mysterious and beautiful woman to take up the quest, which provides plenty of excitement. Ricardo Cortez starred in the 1931 version as Samuel Spade—the role played in the new film by Humphrey Bogart. Sidney Greenstreet now plays the role of Mr. Gutman, previously taken by Dudley Digges, while Peter Lorre has the role of Cairo, and Mary Astor the mysterious Miss Wonderly. The new re-makes have been well chosen and well made. Jeanette MacDonald starred in the latest version. She is seen on the left with Gene Raymond, and above with Ian Hunter and Brian Aherne. The first “Smilin' Through ”— Norma Talmadge . and Harrison Ford. 118