Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

CIMARRON l6l i the point of conducting a case against Dixie Lee for her alleged impropriety, throwing the whole weight of the paper into persuading the town against the girl. At the critical moment of the trial, Yancey rides into town again, in the uniform of Roosevelt's Roughriders. As he embraces Sabra, he learns of the trial and immediately goes to the court-house to plead in Dixie Lee's defence. His eloquence and commonsense argument break down the case and Dixie is acquitted. Forgiving yet again, Sabra begins to see in her husband something that is beyond her ordinary understanding. During nine years Yancey remains in Osage, ruling with a high hand as his principles demand. Oil is discovered in the young city, bringing overnight wealth undreamed to the thriving town. Yancey takes up the cause of the Indians, who had been driven from the North to populate the waste land of Osage, and fights their claims to the bitter end. His work finished, again he is seized with wanderlust, and leaving Sabra he rides away to an unknown destination. Year by year Osage grows. There are wide streets and high buildings — symbols of achievement. The barren desert has become a throbbing city of wealth. It is 1930. Sabra, still controlling the destiny of " The Oklahoma Wigwam," can look out on to skyscrapers and industry. There has been no news of Yancey for many years. A few old friends still stay near Sabra. This day she is to be elected to the Congress of the United States. She is premier woman of Osage. At luncheon she presents to the congressional party her son, Cimarron, and his Indian wife. Afterwards they