OUTSTANDING WESTERN

Evening Star, Issue 22325, 29 April 1936, Page 13

OUTSTANDING WESTERN

BRILLIANT CAST IN STRAND'S ATTRACTION ‘ The Virginian,’ coming t» the Strand on Friday as a novel and as a picture, ranks as one of the classics. Men, women, and children have read Owen Wister’s story, and have thrilled to “ When you say that, smile!” When the picture was first made as a talkie it was the screen’s first great outdoor Western, and it still ranks to-day as a superb picture, packed with action and suspense. Gary Cooper, Walter Huston. Mary Brian, and Richard Arlen are fulfilling the predictions that were made for them when they stirred the country in ‘ The Virginian.’ Gary Cooper, particularly, is right at the top of the screen heap, following his sensational success in ‘ Lives of a Bengal Lancer.’ Following her acclaim in the title role of ‘ Madame Butterfly.’ Sylvia Sidney returns to the screen in the second picture on Friday in another modern story from the shrewd pen of Vina Delmar, author of ‘ Bad Girl.’ The latest Delmar story, produced by B. P. Schulberg for Paramount, in which Miss Sidney is co-starred with George Raft, is ‘ Pick Up,’ a tender, human romance of a girl taken off the street into a world of love and sincerity she has never known before.