Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]
TO-DAYT STAR THEATRE * f ■■ 11 11 ' — I SAY! A Big Feature STOP! LOOK and READ!! “OESERT-GOLD,” ZANE GREY'S GREATEST PRODUCTION, HERE E. K. Lincoln Heads All-Star Cast in B. B. Hampton and E. F. Warner’s Remarkable Picture, a Hodkinson Release, at the STAR THEATRE , / TODAY a Once more has Benjamin B. Hampton demonstrated that as aproducer of "best sellers’’ in pictures he stands without a rival. Zane Grey's "Desert Gold,’’ most powerful of the famous American novelist’s productions, coming on the heels of Mr. Hampton’s tremendously successful Great Authors achievement, Stewart Edward White’s “The Westerners,’’ has won him a place in cinema production occupied by few American producers of genuinely big pictures. In association with Eltlnge F. Warner, a new and welcomed addition to the ranks of powerful producing factors, and Zane Grey himself, Mr. Hampton In “Desert Gold’’ has given to the sliver sheet what two million Zane Grey readers will proclaim, as did the author , himself, Is a living, breathing reproduction of the greatest of Zane Grey-’s stories. .
Distinguished players, all unap-' proachable artists in the roles they were called upon to portray, lend added distinction to “Desert Gold," E. K. Lincoln, star of many successful productions, heading a cast comprising Margery Wilson, Eileen Percy, Walter Long, Russell Simpson, W. Lawson Butt, Arthur Morrison and William BainbridgeW. W. Hodkinson Corporation offers “Desert Gold” at the Star Theatre today as the year’s greatest motion picture treat for every class of American play-goers.
VILLIAN HURT BEING “KILLED” IN ‘DESERT GOLD’ Injury to Walter Long Justifies Director in Leaving Big Scenes for Last.
HARD FIGHTING IN “DESERT GOLD” PROVES TO BE JOY FOR E. K. LINCOLN Noted Artist Gets Plenty of Outdoor Action in Zane Gray Picture.
TWO APPEALING LOVE STORIES IN ZANE GREY’S “DESERT GOLD” • « —
ALL ZANE GREY’S HOPES FULFILLED - IN “DESERT GOLD” "Action and People in Picturd True to My Book," Writes Famous Novelist
E. K. LINCOLN TOPS ALL-STAR CUST IN JHREY PICTURE “Desert Gold* Boasts Ten of the Most Popular Players on the Screen.
‘Desert Gold* Greatest of Zane Grey’s Works All Thrills of Book in Zane Grey Picture
“Desert Gold” Work of Brilliant Director
Ranch Built in Desert For Zane Grey Picture
Climax in Desert Gold” Photographed While “Santa Ana” Sandstorm Raged
Ana will come. Consequently, when Mr. Grey took the company of players into the desert, they took with them two heavy trucks, on which were mounted airplane engines and propellers. These “wind machines” were designed to create a sandstorm. Before the company had been on location two days, a genuine Santa Ana tore into the desert and mocked at their wind (machines. All the extensive "shots” needed were taken in the howling storm, to the great discomfort of the allstar troupe and camera force. Then it Cleared, the huge sand dunes ceased rolling and it was necessary to bring forth the "wind machines” and finish up the Job. Thanks to the real storm. Director T. Hayes Hunter took some wonderful scenes, something, he claims, never before equalled in the history of motion pictures. And the beauty of it. is, the audience at the Star Theatre can sit "amid all the comforts of home” and still live through a desert terror.
“DESERT GOLD” The photoplay of the novel by ZANE GREY Cast Dick Gale E. K. Lincoln Capt. George Thorne .*..... Edward Coxen The Yaqul. . .W. Lawson Butt Mercedes Castenada Margery Wilson Nell .Eileen Percey Jim Belding . . Wm. H- Bainbridge Mrs. Belding. . Laura Winston Rojas Walter Long Ladd . A Russell Simpson Lash Arthur Morrison Papago Indian, mother,... Mrs. Dark Cloud Papago Indian, son, Frank Lanning The Child. .Mary Jane Irving Jonas Warren Russell Simpson Directed by T. HAYES HUNTER Scenario by FRED MYTON Photographed by ABRAHAM SCHOLTZ A. L. TODD
Every traveler to the southwest soon hears of the “Santa Ana,’ the sandstorm more terrifying than cyclone or tornado. The sandstorm in “Desert Gold”, is known to the millions, who have read Zane Grey’s famous novel. Cameron and Burton, prospectors, lose their lives. ’ In the photoplay of “Desert Gold/’ produced by Benjamin B. Hampton and Eltlnge F. Warner for the author’s own company, and distributed by W. W. Hodkinson through Pathe Exchange, the tragic fate of Cameron and Burton is realistically shown. Not only is the “Santa Ana” of “Desert Gold” a screen novelty, but it is absolutely faithful. Several of the scenes of the sandstorm were taken in the Colorado desert, about twen-ty-five miles from Mecca, and the closing scenes—the final death scenes —were taken in the bed of the Santa Ana river, near Whitewater Junction. No man knows when the Santa
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