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Show and his wife Abby leav But they come back agaj' in time for the most thrilling, breath-taking . ful fight against Beauc!n lot' his fast-riding cattle thie is one of the most brilw quences in the fiim g ant and his outlaws are tr i fire blazing high on k? they turn. Both sides fig it out m good Texas fash7 hooi the result is victory for p Dan. Pax decides to take in 813 view of his relationship neighbors, and he and his Vf fe reunited in love and comra Rivoli Theatre To Show Colorful Post-Civil War Film Packed with fast-moving action and full of the color of the Texas cattle-raising country in post-Civil War days, "American Empir e a drama released through United Artists, will move into the Rivoli Theatre on Sunday. It is a picture pic-ture with a historical backgroundcovering back-groundcovering a few decades after 1865 and is produced by Harry Sherman, who knows his history. Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, and Preston Foster do a grand job of carrying the main action, with the help of the expressive Guinn Williams, Wil-liams, and Frances Gifford, who supplies feminine interest prettily and effectively. Dix and Foster start out as the owners of a boat, but advance to the status of prosperous pros-perous owners of an extensive Texas ranch, with a ranch house that to Doorer neighbors looks like the last word in 19th century luxury. lux-ury. The ranch is graced not only by its two man-owners, but by Frances Franc-es Gifford, the sister of Dix who plays Dan Taylor in the picture. She becomes the devoted wife of Preston Foster, as Paxton Bryce, and the mother of his cowboy-son. Neither the path of prosperous cattle-raising nor of domestic love run smoothly because of Pax's j stubbornness and because of the existence of an outlaw band headed head-ed by Leo Carrillo as Dominique Beauchard, who makes a light-hearted light-hearted business of stealing cattle. It's the leakage of cattle from his property that leads Pax to shut his neighbors off his range, which eventally leads to the death of his young son. His grief only serves to aggravate his stubbornness to such an extent that his pal Dan |