Good Old Days Prove Pretty Hectic

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 11

Good Old Days Prove Pretty Hectic

TOUGH HOMBREB IN “OLD CHICAGO” (State: Screening Friday.) Those were, of course, the good old days of Chicago. The producer s of “In Old Chicago” were naturally interested iu these good old days, and so they set their research department to work digging up facts about them. They weren't surprised, however, vlierj it. finally turned out that those lays weren’t .-o good after all. There verc giants in the land iu those days, f not giants, some very tough men.

One English traveller reports his encounter and impressions of the Chicago* .ans of that day thus: “It is impossible to give an iJea of ‘the western man’ to anyone who Las not seen at least one as a specimen. Before them the Indians melt away as grass before the scythe. They .-hoot them down on the slightest provocation, and speak of ‘head of Indian/ as wo do in England of head of game. Their bearing is bold, reckless and independent in the extreme . . . ‘Stranger, 1 belong to tho greatest, most «*ulighteucd, and most progressive nation on earth; 1 may bo of & millionaire next year; 1 don’t car u straw for you or anybody else . . .” Actually, though, Producer Darryl t\ Zanuck and Director Henry King who were seeking lo recapture the mood of old Chicago, were pleased rather than otherwise to.find that it bad bceu such a tough town. It gavu them a chance for lots or light scenes between brawny extras with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Amcche iu tho loading roles. They head the starscintillating cust of the groat Amcricau motion picture which includes Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown, Sidney Blackmer, Berton Churchill, June Storey and Paul Hurst.