LIBERTY THEATRE.
One of the most unassuming, yet one of the finest talking pictures that has ever come to the Liberty Theatre ia "The Great Divide." It is one of the few talkies that are different, in plot, in setting, and in acting. With a succession of beautiful scenes, set in the mountains of Western America by "The Great Divide," it tells, the tale of a sturdy miner who kidnapped the daughter oc his dead partner to show her other things in the world beside cocktails and dancing. Dorothy Mackail, lan Keith, and Myrna Loy aro the three p'ayers starred, the first as the city girl who is brought to her senses in the open air, the second as the courageous miner who led her there, and Miss Loy is the half-caste who claimed his love The acting of all is good, that of Miss Mackail exceptionally good. Most effective is the final scene in which tho girl, by the confession that she hod gone , willingly, saves her kidnapper from the rope and the neighbouring tree. The selection of short films is also exceptionally ; good. At their head is a >duet from the fourth act of Verdi's Trovatore," finely suhg by Rosa Rsiea and Romini,, of the Chicago Grand Opera Company- '
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19910, 23 April 1930, Page 4
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