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Show Screen Epic 'Brigham Young' To Start Playing Friday, September 13 Mormon scout in "Brigham Young.' Opposite him is beautiful Linda Darnell as "the outsider." Twice denied success in Hollywood, Dean Jagger had returned to the New York stage where he had first made his mark. Last season he portrayed por-trayed Jesse James in the stage hit, "Misouri Legend." Rugged, two fisted, a capable actor, Jagger seemed ideal for the role of the Mormon leader, and got it. "Brigham Young" has an impressive im-pressive list of featured players including Brian Donlevy, Jane Dar-well, Dar-well, John Carradine, Mary Astor, Vincent Price, Jean Rogers and Aim Todd. Henry Hathaway directed di-rected the film from a screen play by Lamar Trotti. Kenneth Mac-gowau Mac-gowau was associate producer, o o The epic and heroic Mormon trek : along a trail of almost insurmountable insurmount-able odds to ultimate freedom is one of the most impressive chapters chap-ters in the growth of America. Because Be-cause of the valiant battle they fought to find a 'place where they could live as they believed, much has been written about them and their leader, Brigham Young. But it remained for Darryl F. Zanuck, poduction chief of 20th Century-Fox, Century-Fox, to realize the screen potentialities potenti-alities of such a, colorful subject Zanuick, who has recreated many outstanding characters and events for the screen, saw in Brigham Young and his people a stirring story and decided to bring it tc life. The famous Louis Bromfield was assigned to write the story for the production of "Brigham Young" which comes Friday to the Isis Theatre for five days. Steel-willed, a born leader, Brigham Brig-ham Young organized one of the most astounding mass migrations in history. 30,000 livestock ... a whole, orderly civilization uprooted . . . 20,000 pioneers went on the move towards new frontiers. Only the will of one man held them together to-gether that of Brigham Young, who was to have 27 wives, butld one of the world's famous cities and found a great state. The first year at Salt Lake was one of desperate privation. Then, as if the hardships they had endured en-dured were not enough, millions of crickets swarmed out of the canyons can-yons an attacked their fields. The Mormons, realizing that they could never survive another winter of starvation, dug ditches, set fires and stove mightily to destroy the new enemy. Brigham Young led the Mormons in prayer! Soon the sky was blackened black-ened with thousands of sea gulls, sweeping in five hundred miles from the Pacific ocean to destroy the crickets and preserve the pioneers' pio-neers' food supply. Tyrone Power was given the Important Im-portant role of Jonathan Kent, |