ST. JAMES THEATRE,
Story of Indian Uprising,
To know what is going on in any Hollywood studio, all you have to do is glance at the. day's "call sheet" which hangs just inside the gate. This lists scenes ana persons or things to act in them. When "Geronimo!" the Paramount picture which opens tomorrow at the St. James Theatre, was being produced on the Paramount stage, the call board one day contained the crisp notation, "Six Apaches with practical tomahawks." "Practical," in studio parlance, is anything that works. On the "Union Pacific" sheet there appeared one morning "One Practical Preacher." Cecil B. De Mille thought it lacked reverence. He had the line changed to "One Preacher Type, in Clerical Garb." That, everything in "Geronimo!" is "practical" is indicated by the action of the film. Hand-to-hand fight scenes show rattling rifles and battling savages and soldiers. Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry,, Ralph Morgan, Chief Thunder Cloud, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Gateson, Kitty Kelly, and many others are in the cast. The film tells the story of the last great Indian uprising which took place in the Great South-west territory purchased by the United States from Mexico.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 14
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197ST. JAMES THEATRE, Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 14
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