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AMUSEMENTS\ \ in Hurcm / /RANGE MYSTERY 1 Tnorm attractive than In modernSOLVED BY STARRETT gangster films. a It still shows thatIn Rio Grande” two close pals 'crime does not pay/.but makes out have to pose as deadly enemies in like it once was .thrilling and lucra-ordesr to solve a mystery of the; tive and oftimes amusing ifrange- Charles Starrett, hard-riding hero of many a western adventure,, turns amateur detective to solve the slaying of his best friend and requires Boh Nolan, one of his truest pals, to fight against him* They nottheand quick oncriminal was clever the draw.It tells how the James boys, Frank and Jcssc, developed a righteous1 hate for the railroad which was cheating their mother and theironly engage in fist fights, but blaze j neighbors out of land for its right of away at each other in gun battles, [way. This was a healthy and. ad-in order to stage a ruse which traps mirable hate at the start' which the killer and saves the ranch later, however, grew to become an property of Ann Doran, the girl obsession; a disease. To get evenStarrett loves. with the railroad and to cause“Rio Grar.de” is the feature film . perpetual worry to its grasping,at the State theatre tomorrow and small-minded president, the James Saturday, boys dedicated their lives. They gottheir revenge, but by that time wereJESSE JAMES PREVIEWED HERETyrone Power andHank Fondatoo hard-bitten with the bandit-bug to quit. So they went right on killing, robbing and raising havoc .inmust have had a circus playing ■ general until they accomplished bandit clown in the Ozarks during I what many a present-day gangster the filming of “Jesse James. In has. They evaded the law success-fact, everyone In the show appear- fully, but incurred the jealousy anded to be having a swell time. So did jhale of their henchmen. And Jesse we when we saw it previewed here ,vns finally shot in the back by onerecently. I of his own men—a victim of theJesse James” has been criticizedby other reviewers because it strays so far from fact. Why be so picky? A screen audience wants to be en-familiar double-cross:But the ridin’ and shootin’ _ and jail-breakm’ was wonderful while it lasted. And it made a grand picture.tertained rather than educated, and , “Jesse James” is a rhorse-opera after we can be entertained thoroughly ^ all. But like The Plainsman” it is by Jesse James” and then look up'a super-super one. A high-poworth e facts in a book if we must know 1 ed cast, top-notch direction, ahuge expense account and technl-them.As Uncle Rufo says in the film,1 color make it outstanding. The’ color Jesse was the “go!-darnedest, dad- ; particularly is exceptional. The out-beatenist. rip-roonnest buckaroo in door scenes in the Ozarks are American history” so why not beautiful,weavo a glamorous and adventurous j jn a supporting cost which in-romance about him? It won't be the j eludes Randolph Scott. Slim Sum-first one. After this many years, the ‘merville. Donald Meek, and Johnadventures of the James boys have become American fables, embellished and embroidered beyond recognition anyway, and the actual truth has been long buried in legend.^ If the screen adds one more fabrication to the web of Janies romance, it has committed no crime.Jesse James” has much in common with the gangster pictures, but because it deols with other times and other conditions, it has been allowed to show crime as muchHOW IS YOUR DIGESTION?MinUMpolia, Minn. — L.E. Thompson. 2$iy—2filhAvc. S., : “I foiualDr. Fterc'j’j GolticH MadicnlCarradinc, the work of 'Henry Hull deserves special mention,..As Uncle Rufe, the blaspheming, hard-drinking, James-loving editor of the Liberty. Mo., paper, he won't be recognized as the Franz Josef of “The Great Waltz.” He is closer to his Jeotor Lester of “Tobacco Road” fame than any character he has Donrayed so far in pictures. And Nancy Kelly, the seventeen-year-old starlet seen here for the first time this week in Submarine Patrol.”' makps a favorable impression ng Jesse's wife. While Power and Fonda as the James boys are all right, too. Hank sort of slides around in second place, but Tyrone really gives this time.
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Evening Huronite
Huron, South Dakota, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1939
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Joplin P.
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