The Great Divide (Warner Bros.) (1929)

“The Great Divide” Is One Of The Most a Famous Of All-American Stage Plays Ian Keith Myrna Loy One of the most famous dramas of the American stage. One of the most unusual love _ stories ever screened. See it! Hear it! Directed by Reginald Barker. Based on play by William Vaughn Moody. 100% SINGING TALKING DANCING Cut No.6 Cut 35c Mat roc A FIRST NATIONAL & | VITAPHONE PICTURE “GREAT DIVIDE” ON ITS WAY TO LOCAL HOUSE All-Dialogue Picture Is Based on Famous Play By W. V. Moody (ADVANCE NEWS) The First National screen version of “The Great Divide,” “The great American drama,” has been booked by the Theatre and will open with Dorothy Mackaill in the featured role. “The Great Divide,” as a play, ran for many years and broke box office records throughout this coun try and in Europe. In the screen version, Miss Mace known as kaill portrays an emancipated, cocktail-imbibing modern girl, the type of role in which she has had such She has an opportunity for splendid dra success in her recent pictures. matic work when she is kidnapped by the man she both loves and hates, and is brought out into the The Vita phone talking scenes amid this beautiful country are a feature of the picture. Ian Keith portrays the role of the Westerner, made famous on the stage by Henry Miller. The Mexican fiesta scenes are especially colorful, showing a group of forty dancing girls in the rhythms of Spanish and Mexican dances, the music being heard through Vitaphone. “The Great Divide” was written by William Vaughn Moody and the all-dialogue production brings to the screen the full force and power of this remarkable play. In the cast art Lucien Littlefield, Ben Hendricks, Myrna Loy, Frank Tang, Creighton Hale, George Fawcett, Jean Lafferty, Claude Gillingwater and Roy Stewart. silent desert of Arizona. “Great Divide” Because some of the picture public have been under the impression that “The Great Divide” was a problem in arithmetic, the manager of the Theatre wishes to clear up this point. “<‘The Great Divide’,” he says, “ig a First National-Vitaphone picture adapted from the famous stage play of the same name. “Tt is a dramatic romance of an ultra-modern feminine thrillseeker and a handsome miner to whom thrills are an everyday diet. Dorothy Mackaill and Ian. Keith are the leading players. “The mathematically inclined as well as those who don’t know a triangle from a hypotenuse, will find it great entertainment. In fact everybody will.” “The Great Divide” is showing to crowded houses. MYRNA LOY IS AGAIN A VAMP IN NEW FILM (ADVANCE READER) Myrna Loy, exotic screen charmer, gives another of the fiery portrayals that have skyrocketed her into film fame in less than a year, now in “The Great Divide,’ Dorothy Mackaill’s starring picture openTN sidan neuer eee bein so ator de mies Theatre. She plays a Mexican half-breed, whose heart is set on a man who cares nothing for her. The role calls for dancing of an alluring and mysterious kind. Miss Loy recently completed the part of a gypsy in ‘The Squall” and of-a-strange mountain -geddess.in “The Black Watch.” Before that she was a French half-breed in “The Desert Song.” Because of her unusual characterizations she was called by one famous eritic “an icicle on fire.” Miss Mackaill, the star, has one of her most important roles as the modern daughter of New York who must compete in allurement with this primitive, sex-mad woman. Ian Keith is the object of their rivalry. Others in the cast are Lucien Littlefield, Roy Stewart, George Fawcett, Ben Hendricks and Jean Lorraine. Reginald Barker directed the story, which is an adaptation of William Vaughn Moody’s famous stage success. Chorus Beauties Add to Charm of “Great Divide” (CURRENT READER) “The Great Divide” Dorothy Mackaill’s picture at the ........ Theatre, is supplied with plenty of the newest type of Hollywood pulchritude—the chorus girls. Although a dramatic romance and not a musical production, there are parts of the picture lavish in music and dancing, and using three groups of chorus girls to add to the entertainment. One of the groups is made up of Mexican girls, the first of its Kind ever brought to Hollywood. The chorines trained three weeks under the direction of a former Ziegfield dance director. All of the American girls had been on the stage, about half of them coming from New York. The hoof and hip experts take part in the fiesta sequences which are a brilliant feature of “The Great Divide,” a First National-Vitaphone picture. Dorothy Mackaill appears as a sophisticated Eastern girl brought face to face with the primitive grandeur of the West. Ian Keith and Myrna Loy have important roles. Reginald Barker directed the production, which is an all-dialogue adaptation of William Vaughn Moody’s stage success of the same name. Pen-Pression Of Dorothy Mackaill Dorothy Mackaill, star of ““The Great Divide,’’ current fea ture at the Armando, famous Mexican caricaturist. Theatre, as seen by the pen of **The Great Divide”’ is an all-talking and singing First National-Vitaphone picture. Cut No.1 Cut 40c Mat roc Dorothy Mackaill Now Portrays the Grown-Up Flapper RRR Dorothy Mackaill in “The Great Divide’ Cut No. 21 Cut 25c Mat 5c (CURRENT READER) Dorothy Mackaill plays the role of a sophisticated, grown-up flapper in “The Great Divide,’ her new First National-Vitaphone picture now showing at the Theatre. The part gives the beautiful actress an opportunity to portray the same kind of character in which she gained success in “The Barker” and “Hard to Get.” She attempts to typify the modern girl, with few thrills left to experience, but who is still able to fall head over heels in love with the right man. “The Great Divide” has an Arizona locale. It is an adaptation of William Vaughn Moody’s famous stage success. Reginald Barker directed the all-dialogue production, which features five new songs. An outstanding supporting cast was chosen for Miss Mackaill. Ian Keith is leading man, while others, most of whom have had stage experience, are Myrna Loy, as a Mexican half-breed, Creighton Hale, Lucien Littlefield, Claude Gillingwater, Roy Stewart, Ben Hendricks, James Ford, Jean Lorraine, Gordon Elliott and Jean Laverty. i ee Mexican Beauties | Make Whoopee For the first time in the history of thé Ameérican stage or sereen, a full company of Mexican chorus girls were employed in “The Great Divide,” the First National picture coming to the Saat ere AM on OF dint: haan ai Twenty-four pairs of golden legs and arms whirl through numbers on the set representing a Mexican town in the midst of a fiesta. There are also two groups of American chorines and a mixed chorus of 100 voices in these colorful scenes of the drama. Dorothy Mackaill portrays the heroine with Ian Keith appearing opposite her. Big Chance For Animal Imitators In Talkie Studio Peter Kelly, For Instance, Can “‘Double’’ For Many Birds and Beasts (CURRENT READER) Can you growl like a bear? Whinny like a horse? Or imitate a wild ichthyosaurus ealling to its mate? If you can, you have a chance to break into the movies by joining Hollywood’s newest “profession”— animal imitating. That is, providing all the jobs aren’t taken by the time you get there. Film directors found that the trained animals they had been using had been taught to “emote,” but they hadn’t been taught to talk when the microphone was waiting. As a result, persons who can “double” for the animals by imitating their voices are earning huge salaries at the present time. Peter Kelly, former vaudeville actor, who can imitate birds, beasts, or reptiles with enough finesse to fool their own mothers, was called to “The Great Divide” set at First National to double for a balky parrot who wouldn’t say “one little kiss for Manuella.” His voice sounds more natural than that of a real parrot in the Vitaphone picture which is now playing at the Theatre, with Dorothy Mackaill starred. FAMOUS DIRECTOR MADE THE LATEST MACKAILL FILM Reginald Barker Is a Veteran of Both the Stage and Screen (ADVANCE READER) Reginald Barker has been identified with the spectacular story of action since the begining of his motion picture career in 1914, His film debut.as a director was made wielding the megaphone on William §. Hart’s first starring production, “The Bargain.” Now his latest, a modern story of action that moves by means of a train wild party from New York to a colorful and novel fiesta on the Mexican border, will make its appearance ‘here at ‘the 2) er. Theatre. It is “The Great Divide,” a First National production, featuring Dorothy Mackaill, which will CpeW Ss RoR ak Barker ran the gamut of stage jobs before he came to Hollywood to work for the late Thomas H. Ince. He had been producer, stage direetor, actor, playwright, and advance agent in his own and other, men’s companies. He was manager for Henry Miller while the famous actor was travelling through the United States and Europe in “The Great Divide” stage company, and occasionally played roles in the play. In the early days of film-making he gained fame as the director of “The Hell-Cat,” “The Stronger Vow,” “The Brand,” and “Godless Men.” Others of his earlier spectacular successes were “Eternal Struggle,” “The Storm,” and “Broken Barriers.” In “The Great Divide” screen version he has brought his talent for romance and swift action to depict a sophisticated modern girl alone in the great Arizona desert. with th man she loves—and hates! i Ian Keith appears opposite Miss Mackaill. Others in the picture are Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Lucien Littlefield, Creighton Hale, James Ford and Roy Stewart. he ns PA A\% Cut No.4 Cut 35c Mat roc A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Page Seven