At Southbridge

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 17, 3 March 1939, Page 7

At Southbridge

"IN OLD CHICAGO" TO-MORROW

More than 3000 actors and extras [appeared in one scene of "In Old (Chicago," Darryl F. Zanuck's (greatest production which comes to the Southbridge Town Hall to-mor-row evening. This lavish screen offering which stars Tyrone Power, I Alice Faye, and Don Ameche, tells an absorbing love story with the famous Chicago fire of 1871 as the climactic scene. Bringing this on the screen meant reconstructing two Chicagos, one the city in 1854, just at the start of its growth, the other the city in its glory just before the blazing ruin descended. A vast amount of research was entailed in this job. The studio staff prepared—taking a year to do it —a 240 page book dealing minutely not only with such obvious matters as the plans of the city, theT important buildings, the costumes of the day, the industries, the manners of the period, but also with such apparently irrelevant details as what the people ate, drank, read, what games they played, what songs they sang, the conditions of the streets, how they were lighted, how the police and fire | departments were managed and how elections were conducted. "In Old Chicago," is Zanuck's great climactic production with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, and Done Ameche in the leading roles. They head the star-scintillating cast of the great American motion picture which includes Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown, Sidney Blackmer, Berton

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