The Picture Show Annual (1935)

Adapted from Oliver La Farge’s novel. ( Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer ) It is the tragedy of a Navajo brave who falls in love with Slim Girl " who has tasted the pleasures of civilisation, and although she marries him, can- not forget them, and is dissatis- fied with the toil that is the lot of a Navajo squaw. She re- turns to her rancher lover—but “ Laughing Boy ” follows, and as the custom of his race demands, kills her. 1 he him was made on the Navajo Indian Reserva- tion in Arizona, and with the exception of the villain and a few tourists, the entire supporting cast is composed of Navajo tribesmen. More than a thousand take part in some of the scenes. The location was more than sixty miles from a railway station, and a'base was established at Cameron, a trading post near the reservation, from which the necessary excursions into remote parts of Northern Arizona were made. Lupe Velez and Ramon Novarro as Navajo lovers, whose parents prophesy tragedy when they marry. After marriage Slim Girl finds that Navajo ways are hard and coarse, and longs for money to keep her beautiful. She asks Laughing Boy's permission to go to town, but, lonely, he follows her and finds her with her old lover ( William Dickenson). lV