Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-06 | Page 10 | Rex Beach's Big Feature Scores Hit

IX BEAR BIG i j FEflTLIRE SCORES HST: Alaska is a country which offers a 1 never-ending source of fertility to the imagination of Rex Beach. In "Tho Girl From Outside," his latest Gold-! wyn picture, which is now showing at the Ogden theater, he never overlaps any of his previous northern themes. I The story of a girl who. orphaned on j her way to Nome, Alaska, finds her-, self set down there in a time when I riot and vice ran rampant, is a pow-' ort'iil presentation of life in the wild and wooly north of Klondike days. That peculiar "punch" which is as-, soclated with the written and screen productions of Rex Beach is never I missing in this newer tale. There is a I variety of action working logically and i swiftly against the background of' snow and greed and gold. Tho psychol-! ogy of five crooks 13 developed relent-1 leBSly; as Is their progression to a bet- tor state of life when they come un- j der the radiant influence of June, the j "glrdl from out3ide." Their leader ul-, tlmately sacrifices himself for her. 1 The point is that they do.not "reform," ' they change; their outlook is altered I fundamentally. As n presentation of 1 the life of many characters, this new j picture takes a high rank among mo-1 lion picture classics.