“Salomy Jane” Is A Scheduled Attraction

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7106, 15 March 1933, Page 5

“Salomy Jane” Is A Scheduled Attraction

Film versions of famous stories have sometimes proved disappointing in the past, what with various changes in tho plot and tho characterisations to meet screen requirements. When, however, a notaiblo story is found that needs no alterations, and is given pretty nearly flawless casting, direction and setting, the result is a real event in film circles. Such is "Salomy Jane,” Fox Films’ new picture, which comes to tho Palace on Wednesday next. Closely following tho late Paul Armstrong’s dramatisation of Bret Hart’s famous "Salomy Jane’s Kiss,” filmed in tho majestic big-tree settings of Sequoia National Park in California, and with brilliant portrayals by Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett and the other players, this production ranks with the finest offerings since the coming of talking pictures. Tho story deals with tho days of California’s gold-mining era, and actually is laid within a few miles of the Park. Farrell, pursuing the man who betrayed his sister during tho Civil War, has trailed him to a little mountain settlement near which Miss Bennett lives with her widowed father. The belle of the community, she has little interest in her suitors, but suddenly changes her mind about men on Farrell’s arrival. In attaining his revenge, however, he becomes embroiled with the Vigilantes, and Miss Bennett’s efforts to secure ax* freedom give rise to the gripping drama of the climax.

Theodore Dreiser ha 3 sold the screen rights of Ms novel, "Jennie Gerhart,” to Paramount for £6250. Not long ago, as the result of his objections to the screen version of "An American Tragedy,’’ he declared that he would never allow another of his books to be filmed,