Two-Fisted Passion

QUEEN CALAFIA--Vicente Blasco Ibanez--Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely) that she was his mother, and projected him disinterestedly into the arms of young and charming Consuelito. The whole is a swift, colorful story, roaming over several continents and not very relevantly embodying most of the early history of California. It ought to be better in the pictures.