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Picture Show Annual 57 and, After that the big companies began to take notice and the despised Westerns came into their own again. Even in the early days of the cinema pictures of the Wild West had something in them that made an appeal to the whole world. They were popular even on the Continent. There was Romance in the Wild West, where for so many years the only law was the law of the gun, and the right to live so often depended on a man'si quickness in drawing his revolver and his stiaight shooting. Living on the Threshold of Death THERE is always a thrill in the heart of the most peaceful person in watching or reading about a man who lives on the threshold of death. The tales of Bret Harte. Zane Grey, and maiy other lesser writers had taught us to weave Romance into the lives of honest, hard-nding cowboys, fearless sheriffs, clever —too clever—but still courageous profes- sional card gamblers. Even the stage coach robbers, the rustlers and the outlaws com- manded something of our admiration, if we could not respect them, for at least they fought m'the open. And the big point about our Westerns was Ken Maynard was the star who stuck oul the days when everyone be- li e v e d the Western had died and first introduced songs of the cowboys into pictures. Here he is with Dorothy Dwan in one of his talkies. Ian Keith and Dorothy Mackaill were cast for the leading roles in " The Great Divide," in the silent version of which you may remember Conway Tearle and Alice Terry. n When Clara Bow was just Tom Mix's leading lady — a scene from " The Best Bad Man."