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“Tumbleweeds” is not merely a “Western'’ picture; not- just a cow¬ boy film—but a vividly realistic and tremendously, human heart story of the West by the one screen star who knows that vast region, knows its people and their ways, knows the code of the cowboy and the cattleman of the period. “Tumbleweeds" presents a graphic and dynamic camera story of the greatest land rush in the history of the West—when the United States government threw open to homestead the 12,000 square miles of virgin prairie in the Cherokee Indian strip between Kansas and Okla- • homa. Thousands joined in this madly wild stampede for home sites, and the “rush” is pictured by William’s. Hart with absolute fidelity and his¬ torical accuracy. “History told in heart throbs," was the comment of a noted motion picture critic when he saw this neW William S. Hart picture while it was being edited and titled. The picture gets its name from a weed that sprouted apparently from nowhere immediately after the prairie sod of the middle western states was turned over the homesteader's plow. This weed grew rapidly into a great hemisphere of spiny foliage, its flat side on the ground, and its huge oval, sometimes four feet tall, resting in a broad circle on the earth. Nature caused the root to decay as the millions of seeds rip¬ ened, and at the first strong wind of autumn the weeds fetched loose from their moorings and went rolling and tumbling across the prairie like a great ball.