The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-30
THE PALACE,


 ington's Monsieur Beaucaire" that has been selected as the vehicle in which Rudolph Valentino returns 70 the screen after an absence of nearly two years and the return of the coiorful and magnetic star marks an occasion in the silent drama that can be con- sidered one of its great events. This Is the picture with which the Palace opens the fall and winter sea sons, periods that are destined to be the most notable in the history of the beautiful house. Monsieur Beaucaire' will be presented at the Paalce during the entire coming week, beginning it's engagement on Sunday evening. As the initial offering of the new season this splendid screen production offers a brilliant example of the strength ana importance of the stellar attractions in both vaudeville and pictures that have been booked at the Palace for the busy amusement weeks that are to come.
 Hundreds of thousands have. read Monsieur Beaucaire" and it will inter est these to know that the Booth Tar kington story has been unchanged ex- cept for the insertion of a nunlpcr o1 scenes in the opening of the picture i'll order to build up the French episodes that occur later on in the screen yer sion In the original book there were no French scenes, all the action taking place in England with the incidents of France merely mentioned at different places in the story.
 While plenty of dramatic suspense is found in the French scenes in the picture there Is much less of the physi cal combat except for the closing in cidents of the episode showing the banquet table of King Louis XV It is in this scene that the Duke de Char tres, played by Valentino, defes the king and prepares to flee from France. But in the English episodes that fol- low Valentino becomes fighting bear cat Posing as "Beaucaire," a barber, the duke soon gets into trouble Dy try ing to win Lady Mary away from Lord Winterset. After several unsuc- cessful attempts to have "Beaucaire- removed from active competition for Lady Mary's hand, Winteresr finally hires six sWOrdsmen to do the work. The fight that follows sets pace that promises to go untouched for many r. t. deek the great classic of all Dig thrills.
 Special efforts have been made to provide vaudeville surroundings en- tirely behtting this supreme picture. One of the most pleasing attractions of this portion of the bill is The Runaway Four an act which for clev erness and novelty is one of the top notch offerings of modern variety, Then there are Arthur Hartley and Helen Patterson who present a skit entitled One Night" This fine bit of entertainment is built along the com edy side of burglary and this seem ing impossibility is made possible through the use of bright materIa4 plus the ability of MT. Hartley and Miss Patterson to make the most Of the lines supplied them. There is also a touch of song and dance that serves to add brightness to the offering.
 The Melroy Sisters, pretty, clever and chic, have a routine Of songs and steps that form an actual vaudeville delight Two capable girls with pair of faces unusually easy on the eyes succeed in obtaining surprising results in this breezy piece of vaudeville "Broadway lid Bits," a la Mossman and Turner consist of dancing tunes and tickling tales. These stage people have way and style about them that entities them to be called smart. In cidentally their voices are far and away ahead of the average.
 On Thursday the vaudeville section of the bill bill undergo a complete change although as previously stated Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beau caire" will remain as the screen at traction for the entire week.