Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-02-22 | Page 12 | "San Francisco" on Swickard Screen

San Francisco on Screen Denizens of San Francisco as well as all who have read in romance and history of the undying city by bythe bythe the Golden Gate will revel in the characteristic scenes and the development development devel devel- of the types employed to portray portray por por- tray San Francisco a production production pro pro- for Grand Asher release which started this week under the tha di direction of Charles The Golden Gate the Seal Rocks the sand dunes Turner Hall in 1851 the vigilantes a cabaret south of the tha slot inthe days Just prior to the fire a mansion on Nob Hill scenes in the slums and around a typical police station l all of these will ba be found in inthe inthe the finished product The nomenclature of San Francisco la is in itself fascinating for what other othe r city save perhaps New York has ha s names comparable in Imaginative e quality to Nob lull Hill Cliff House Seal Rocks Barbary Coast etc etc Who recalls Inc trie reason for the pic plc expression South of the Slot designating the regions south of Market street It was the old cable car slot that suggested the tha un ique Julanne Johnston nas probably the most unique characterization of her career as La Petite Colomb in the Prolog laid In 1851 When the cafes such as Turner Hall hail flourished to be superceded by the Bella Belia Union and others now gone the way of their kind the golden lure hire drew by thousands thou sands all sorts of spectacular people from every clime and walk of life Among these were numerous famous dancers and artists of all sorts and the prototype of Colomb would not be difficult to trace In the modern story laid In 1906 Miss Johnston Is the granddaughter of the dancer dancer dancer-a a product of the Barbary Bar Bar- bary Coast Coast called Nell Barbs Barbe The romance that develops If an affecting one and the past and present are shown to be indissolubly linked es especially es- es in the character of Kerney a revenant from the days of 49 a a pic plc- patriarchal survivor of the pioneer times I I Johnston is a delightful dane dane- er a pupil of Ruth S S. S Denis and with her beauty and talents should make her characterizations unforgettable among screen portrayals Josef will of course be Kerney and his splendid talents will be exercised to their fullest extent In presentation of this character yen ven erable yet Imbued with ith the olt time Indomitable spirit of pioneers Francis MacDonald plays the male lead as Joe Eagles a dominating figure and many other players will interpret parts of Importance In par par- James D. D Leong who will be Ben Wan Wah a Chinaman who is bound up In a plot Harvey Gates has done exception exception- al at work on the story and script and Charles win wilt again demonstrate demon demon- strate his superior qualities as a director di- di rector San Francisco by every and portent la is destined to constitute the of the of progress in the screens screen's development