DE LUXE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 8

DE LUXE THEATRE.

Tomorrow's Programme.

A grand new location, one never before used for a Western film, was.discovered by Producer Harry Sherman and used for his filming of Zane Grey's "The Light of Western Stars," which starts tomorrow at the De Luxe Theatre, with Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, and Russell "Lucky" Hayden in. featured roles. The location is 35 miles off a main highway and close to Death Valley. It can be reached only by travelling over the roughest of dirt roads. Sherman selected it because it so closely resembles the Texas-Mexican border described in the picture. Many of the important scenes . were shot there. "The Light of Western Stars" tells how a lovely Eastern girl attempts to reform a hard-riding Westerner, who has become mixed up with outlaws. There have been many motion pictures in the past about horses, but there has never before been one so engrossing, so touching, and so inspiring as "Pride of the Bluegrass," the Warner Bros, production which will be the second feature. For the hero of "Pride of the Bluegrass" is probably the most remarkable horse that ever lived. He is Elmer Gantry, the blind horse which can jump as surely and gracefully over steeplechase hurdles as any well-trained hunter with keenest eyesight. The screen play by Vincent Sherman correlates the life of its equine hero to the humans with whom it comes into contact. The cast of human actors is headed by two accomplished juvenile players, Edith Fellows and James McCallion, and it also in- j eludes Granville Bates, Aldrichj Bowker, and DeWolf; Hopper. It is naturally, however, the courageous and intelligent horse which captures the major share of the audience's interest, for there is no trickery involved in the almost uncanny skill with which the blind: animal.displays on the screen the accomplishments which*, have for several years: of -exhibition at fairs and horse shows in America gained him a steadily increasing fame. . J