The Great Divide (Warner Bros.) (1929)

additions to the copy. Every ad and story on this page can be used for advertising the Vitaphone version with slight ROMANCE AND GRANDEUR OF THE MIGHTY WEST FORM SETTING FOR THRILLING PLOT OF “GREAT DIVIDE’® * * * Cut No. 20 Cut 4goc Mat roc Ian Keith, Dorothy Mackaill and Myrna Loy in “The Great Divide’ (PREPARED SILENT REVIEW) “The Great Divide,” First National’s spectacular adaptation of the famous stage play, aided and beautified by the charming star, Dérothy Maekaill, opened last ........:..:. at the Theatre The picture, a romance of Arizona and Mexico, is one of Miss Mackaill’s very~ finest vehicles. She is shown as a modern maid whose real heart has been buried under the experiences of a life of thrill-seeking. It is the type of role in which she appeared in “The Barker” and “His Captive Woman.” She is hard, and minus any vestiges of sentiment, until Ian Keith transforms her during a kidnapping trip | through the desert. | “The Great Divide” is a colorful, | well-made production. The story is diverted by the novelty of a Mexican fiesta, with many charming dancing scenes, but Reginald Barker, the director, brings one back to the | plot with easy skill. The characters are then taken through mountain and desert country with many shots of scenie grandeur, | woman. | Jean the story coming to a close in the Dorothy Mackaill in “The Great Divide”’ Cut No. 11 Cut 25c¢ Mat 5c Made Picture Twice Reginald Barker, director of First National-Vitaphone’s “The Great Divide,” current all-dialogue attraction at the Theatre, directed a “silent” version, also adapted from the famous stage play, several years ago. lan Keith in “The Great Divide”’ Cut No. 12 Cut25c Mat sc Page Four mining cabin of Keith. Myrna Loy brings a spark of fiery passion as a little Mexican girl who loves Keith with Latin fury, but whose passion is doomed to disappointment. George Faweett, Ben Hendricks and Lucien Littlefield give comedy characterizations that are of high merit. The action and basic appeal of the footlight epic have been. transferred to the screen story. Miss Mackaill, on her way West with some of her companion whoopee-makers, is side-tracked by the lure of a fiesta in old Mexico. She meets Keith, who poses as a Mexican caballero. They fall in love and he kidnaps her with the idea of changing her to his ideal of a And after many stormy scenes he succeeds. The cast is exceptionally good, |ineluding such performers as Roy Stewart, James Ford, Jean Lorraine, Laverty, Creighton Hale, Frank Tang, Claude ‘Gillingwater |and Gordon Elliott. “The Great Divide” play, was written by William Vaughn Moody. It is one of the classics of the American theatre, and the picture is worthy of it. MYRNA THE EXOTIC Myrna Loy gives another of her exotic screen portrayals as the Spanish half-caste girl in “The Great Divide,” current First National-Vitaphone picture at the Theatre. The Modern Desert Dorothy Mackaill brings the snap as a stage .| py wise-cracking of New York cafes to a desert setting in “The Great Divide,” the First National-Vitaphone picture at the Theatre. Myrna Loy in “The Great Divide’’ Cut No. 13 Cut 25¢ Mat 5c ROY STEWART Roy Stewart, the “big boy” of many thrilling screen romances, plays a supporting role with Dorothy Mackaill in “The Great Divide,” the First National-Vitaphone picture at the Theatre. Tan Keith is leading man. WHOLE MEXICAN TOWN BUILT ON FILM STUDIO LOT (ADVANCE READER) A difficult feat of construction was performed at the First National studio recently, when an_ entire Mexican village was built in two days. Cactus, dusty streets, adobe houses, plaza and all the features of usual Mexico town were put up in record-breaking time by one hundred and seventy workmen. The set was built for scenes in “The Great Divide,” the all-dialogue Vitaphone picture starring Dorothy Mackaill, which comes to the Rear an Theatre Streets were laid out and framework constructed the first day. The second day the men did the plastering and painting and planted the necessary shrubbery, including ten varieties of cactus. Two hundred Mexican extras peopled the set. Ian Keith portrays a _ stalwart Westerner, appearing opposite Miss Mackaill, Myrna Loy is cast as a half-breed Spanish girl. The cast includes James Ford, Creighton Hale, Claude Gillingwater, Roy Stewart, Lucien Littlefield, George Faweett, Ben Hendricks, Jean Laverty, Frank Tang, Jean Lorraine and Gordon Elliott. Reginald Barker directed. BIG CAST Four hundred players, including dancers and special performers, took part in the Mexican fiesta scenes in “The Great Divide,” the First National picture at the Theatre. SILENT GREAT First National SILENT TRAILERS on all productions available exclusively through NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE, INC. 130 W. 46th St. New York 1922 So. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles 810 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM NOW Sophistication Plus The popular Dorothy Mackaill enacts one of the most important roles of her career as the pleasure-seeking, sophisticated heroine of “The Great Divide,” the First NationalVitaphone picture showing at the Theatre. stretches into a men. a be See fei a ace panel « Catan hel A A , 4 a i *I Rg dirothy Machaill Trail” As Beautiful As A Western Sunset West—where the painted desert great adventure. Where women fight to hold their Where a New York flaming flapper learns the meaning of love, when a he-man’s kisses burn her soul. with lan Keith, Myrna Loy Directed by Reginald Barker. Based on play by Wm. Vaughn Moody. With chorus of 150 dancing girls. Hear “Si, Si, Senor’ and “At the End of the Lonesome beautiful theme songs. eg No.5 Cut 65c Mat rs5c A FIRST NATIONAL TALKING, SINGING and DANCING VITAPHC NE PICTURE Prejudiced? Yes, And Proud Of It, Dorothy Declares The Blonde Miss Mackaill Gives a List of Things That She Dislikes (FEATURE) “T don’t like onions or garlic on my own or anyone’s breath, and I’m not afraid to tell it to the world,” says Dorothy Mackaill, star in First National Pictures, who will be seen and heard at, thej4ic.. ees! stadt “The Great Divide.” “Moreover, I don’t think that the man or woman who likes garlic will like or respect me any less because I most emphatically do not,” she adds. “T don’t like ‘collegiate’ sox on men. Gartered sox for me. In the same way, I hate to see a woman whose stockings have crooked seams up the back. “Male soprano voices are distasteful to me. So are all yodelers. I’m sure they don’t mind’me: And no doubt they do not approve of many of the things I do stand for. If they tell me, I like them better for it. “T don’t like the sort of man who puts on a woman’s hat in order to clown at a party. Perhaps he’d be all right if he discontinued this habit and its usual accompaniment, a running fire of stale quips and puns. “Probably he wouldn’t approve of me in white canvas beach pants and a bathing suit, riding a bicycle to the ocean for a morning swim. “T have other prejudces by the dozen, and I’m proud of them. I also like and respect the prejudices of other. folk. Prejudices show that their owner has an alert mind. They show that he does not aecept what the world tells him without first inspecting it. “Tt’s just like counting your change, this thing of eriticising, silently or audibly, the things that pass in at your ears, eyes, nose and touch system to the sanctum of your brain. Don’t just grin and say they’re all good. “Tf you do, you’re just doing an injustice to the really good things by not giving them the distinction they deserve. It’s like people. Be everybody’s friend, and the really worthwhile folk will not value your friendship. Nothing is truer than Aesop’s fable of the man, the boy and the donkey, in which the man tried to please everybody. “That’s why prejudices are healthy, sane, normal and intelligent. The person without them is characterless. He may not be_ essentially unintelligent, but he lacks mental energy. “The person who is afraid to state them is timid. And the person who doesn’t indulge in his prejudices is missing a lot of fun.” Miss Mackaill, one-time “Follies” star in New York, is an English lass who was educated for the stage in London. She was star in the famous old Hippodrome there, and her act was taken to Paris as one of the “international features” imported for the French ecapital’s most famous revue. Her current picture, “The Great Divide,” is based upon the famous drama by William Vaughn Moody. Tan Keith plays opposite the star. Coast-To-Coast Party Breaks All Whoopee Records (CURRENT READER) Hollywood kisses years ago became famous for their unprecedented length. Now the film makers have shattered all records for the length of a wild party. In “The Great Divide,” the First National-Vitaphone picture at the : Theatre, Dorothy Mackaill is hostess of a train whoopee gathering that starts in New, York and ends in Mexico. If Dorothy hadn’t been kidnapped it might have lasted clean to the Pacific Ocean. Theatre in