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When Thomas H. Ince introduces his famous star, William S. Hart, to ......... patrons of Artcraft pictures, he will depict a bit of life in
the now silent Barbary Coast. In "The Narrow Trail," which will be seen at the. ........ on. ......... Hart has the role of a Western highwayman who
ventures into a typical "honky-tonk" of a decade ago, and the motion picture audiences will see presented with graphic vividness the sensational features of night life that made this particular section of San Francisco notorious the world over.
Nothing like the Barbary Coast has ever been known. It occupied a niche of its own in underworld history. Here all sorts of crimes were plotted and perpetrated. Here were drawn the dregs of criminal organizations from foreign fields, as well as this country, and here crime thrived and blossomed and succeeded as nowhere else in all the world. Port Said, reputed to be a "bad town," was a kindergarten compared with San Francisco's Barbary Coast in its palmiest period. And it is this period that is so wonderfully reproduced in Hart's "The Narrow Trail."
An effort to "shanghai" the big, rugged Western highwayman results in a fight that for sheer spectacular features has no parallel in screen battles.
Fritz, William S. Hart's famous Pinto pony, is a proud horse these days, for he figures almost as prominently as his master in "The Narrow
Trail," the initial Ince-Artcraf t production, which will be seen at
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