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Show FIlKTillT 1 A special treat is in store for the many admirers of Douglas Fairbanks In his newest Artcraft picture, "The Man from Painted Post," coming to the Alhambra theater tomorrow for a three'Jays' run, -The" sciipt for this photoplay was written by Douglas himself him-self and Is based on Jackson Greg-oiy's Greg-oiy's recent magazine story "Silver Slippers " In the role of Fancy Jim Sherwood, the immaculate dude who wipes out a powerful gang of cattle rustlers, the smiling star offers a characterization char-acterization that will meet with popular popu-lar favor among patrons of clean pictures. pic-tures. Bucking bronchos, crack-rldlng, trick roping and bull-dogging steers &re among the interesting features offered by this comedy drama of the truo west. Participating in these scenes are the champions of the world In their re- spective accomplishments, including Sam Brown oil, champion bucking broncho bron-cho rider; John Judd, fancy rope artist; ar-tist; Tommy Grimes, H. A. Strickland and other winners at the, last Rodeo Competition held in Cheyenne. Wyo. It was at this meet that Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks signed up the champions for "The Man from Painted Post" and each individual gives a good account for himself in this picture. Instead of staging this production in California where his studio is located, Douglas Fairbanks took his entire company com-pany ,in a special train to Laramie, Wyo., where, thirty miles from the railroad rail-road station, he leased the Riverside Ranch, covering 160,000 acres, containing contain-ing 30,000 head of cattle. Advertisement. |