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Show AMUSEMENTS Hart Pleases in 'WagonTracks' at Paramount W1L.UAM S. HART, popular Artcraft star, has scored another success in his latest western picture, "Wagon Tracks," which was shown at the Para-, mount-Empress yesterday and runs ealn today and tomorrow. As Buckskin Hamilton, Ham-ilton, a desert guide, Mr. Hart has one of tho strongest roles he has essayed in many months, and his supporting com-pr.nv, com-pr.nv, headed by Jane Novak and Robert iMcKim, is excellent. The Prizma offering this week is some wonderful natural color pictures of a grandfather telling the youngsters by the light of the lire how he became a member of an Indian tribe while a young man, and the subsequent scenes of Indians in their war paint, amid rugged scenery; the wonderful, tinted skyscapes, lakes and streams are all distinctively dis-tinctively artistic and unique. C. Gardner Sullivan took the old Santa Fe trail from Kansas to Santa Fe as the locale of ""Wagon Tracks," and the period pe-riod is about 1850. The experiences of the early pioneers bent on reaching the lands of plenty have been accurately depicted in this story, in which W. S. Hart appears ap-pears in a sort of Kit Carson character. A romantic love interest Is involved, but the thrills of the desert struggles against privation and Indians are equally as fas- rtlvin h'ntr Tn ViT-inf t i t a a a nlotnrp thfi old Utah pioneers will revel tn, while the boys, too, will be equally absorbed in the adventures of the scout-pruide hero. Robert McKIm, erstwhile leading man at the old Utah theater, now the worst villain in the films, the man one Instinctively Instinc-tively hates from the moment he appears, has the "heavy role" of the gambler who meets his just deserts at the hands of the Indians. While Jane Novak has not so very much to do aside from appearing sorrowful and pensive, she Fills the part in this stirring pioneer drama in acceptable accepta-ble fashion. , Mountain and plain and his pack animals; ani-mals; Ions wagon trains crawling over the trail such had been the life of the scout, until one day they brought his brother home murdered. After that he wras Hamilton the Avenger. But when he found the man he found the brother of the woman he loved. Then a fascinating ordeal of the desert and a roving Indian band, seeking and taking an eye for an eye; then the end of the trail. Such, In brief, is the story of "Wagon Tracks," one of the best western dramas screened here for some time. |