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Show I THE CITIIV THAT I j I NEVER SLEEPS. ! James Cruze, noted Paramount ! producer, who jumped into the direc- i toriai limelight with "The Covered j Wagon," "Merton" and other screen successes, recently finished a new Paramount picture which is being I hailed as another scren masterpiece. "The City That Never Sleeps," is ; his latest of einamo thrillers and , local fans will soon have the opportunity oppor-tunity of judging its worth because it is due next Saturday, March 21, at the Star theater. The story is an adaptation of "Mother O'Day," by Leroy Scott, which ran serially in McCall's Magazine. It has New York for its backgroinid that portion of New York which has made the city so famous. fa-mous. The night life of New York of today is contrasted with that of a decade ago when the Bowery was in the heyday of its glory. Briefly the story deals with a mother's sacrifice for her only daughter her efforts to protect the child from the Tenderloin environment environ-ment in which she herself was brought up. Later she conies face to face with the bitter realization that despite all she has done to prevent pre-vent it, her daughter is travelling too fast a pace. The manner in which she saves her daughter by making the supreme sacrifice provides pro-vides real thrill and leads to a mighty climax. 1 ' SUNDOWN 4 . The passing of the Old West, the cattle barons and the tremendous herds of cattle which roamed the plains, has been immortalized in "Sundown" to be sown at the Star theater next Wednesday and Thursday. Thurs-day. The news feature of the announcement announce-ment is that the picture will be fact rather. than fiction. The big scenes in the photoplay-were taken during the movement of the largest herd in the history of the west. This tremendous movement of cattle betran as First National cameras cam-eras ground. The cattle, more than luo.OiiO, converged from the north rim of the Grand Canyon, from Flagstaff, Ariz., Columbus, N. M.. and Texas and were driven south to Mexico. A battery of ten cameramen rode with the cowpunchers. The movement of the cattle was made necessary by the encroucb-ment encroucb-ment of the smaller farmer the "nester" in the vernacular of cattlemen cattle-men whose small farms and holdings hold-ings year by year are slowly driving driv-ing the big range into comparatively small ranches. This epic of today, the passing of the big herds with adventure and romance, is the theme of "Sundown" for which scenes of the big cattle run were taken, as a historical background for the romantic love slnry told by the stellar cast of whiho Roha rt. Bosworl b, 3,.essie Love, Roy Stewart. Charlie Murray, Arthur Hoyt. Charles Sellon, Charles B. Crockett, Bernard Randall, Ran-dall, Wilfred North. Hal Wilson and Jere Austin were members. |