Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-18 | Page 9 | Will Rogers Picture Holds Tense Interest

Will Rogers Picture H Holds Tense Interest By FLICKER FAN Somewhere rc out there will Rogers Rogers Rogers Rog Rog- ers wears a smile of contentment as ashe ashe asic he ic sees the grins tears puckish expressions expressions expressions ex ex- ex- ex and droll twitches that come to faces of Capitol theater patrons patrons pa- pa rons this week where his last Jast and probably his greatest motion picture pictures is s running In Old Kentucky one of the late tate humorists humorist's greatest vehicles Is a simple thing Its scenes arc are in the m main in small the thc the type Rogers loved Its characters arc are real folks men and women of the blue grass of old Ken- Ken tucky The story Is the simple one of at a great race horse and a great man who vho would point the thoroughbred for or tho the Ashford sweepstakes Tragedy Tragedy Tragedy Trag Trag- edy lies in the fact Rogers attempts to o play the friend of all and one day finds many friends aligned against him ilm for aiding the horse owner to escape the law The show while it portrays the feudist s system stem in Kentucky to a certain degree debunks the tho theory of ot holding a grudge against your our neighbor Rogers himself proves this on many occasions throughout the pic- pic ture ure He finally winds up by showing showing show- show ing ng ngone one of the great tributes of life lifes is s to be called friend Rogers' Rogers performance is superb to those hose who admire his type of acting He avoids usual melodramatic stances of other actors and just injects injects in- in Dorothy Wilson and Russell Hardie Hardie Hardle Har- Har die dle supply the love clement element in the picture picture-a a young oung couple separated by y family differences Bill Robinson star tap dancer Is cast in a lovable role as Rogers' Rogers hostler and handy man He runs riot especially in one scene where he le teaches Rogers to dance to win the he hand of at a 0 beautiful southern lady ady The picture is replete with laughs saturated with wit and rapid in ac ac- ac- ac tion Only in m a few minor instances does it drag and then in a none too noticeable degree The bill is filled out with The Our Gang Follies Follies' a n rollicking musical musical musical mu mu- revue many stages removed from rom former Our Gang comedies Hal Roach has been making these kid cid farces since 1922 1022 He has discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered a n real juvenile find Ind That ThatIs Is s McFarland chubby cherubic impresario who puts on a penny jenny show in the grand manner It is a good half halt hour of laughs songs and roars Sometimes it al almost almost almost al- al most lays them in the aisles And dont don't miss Alfalfa Switzer the I homeliest and m most st natural youngster youngster youngster young young- i ster who ever hit tho the screen Hes He's good The show concludes with a Technicolor Technicolor Tech Tech- Fitzpatrick travel talk Honolulu Paradise of tho the Pacific which husbands should not permit their wives to see unless they want to mal make e a 0 Pa Pacific voyage next summer sum sum- mer and mer-and and a Paramount sound newsreeL newsreeL news news- reeL