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Show "Viva Villa" Is World's Screen Classic f "Viva Villa!" Metro-Gdldwyn-J ( Mayer's spectacular story which '1 plays Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June 17, 18 and 19, at Che -Cameo Theatre, is generally classed among the great screen masterpieces ccff all time. Filmed largely in Mexico, with Wallace Beery as the star and with an exceptional supporting cast, "Viva Villa!" has emerged as one of the j truly great productions of recent j i years. f. 1 More than 100,000 Mexican natives ' I were used during production, as many as 6,000 appearing on the screen at one time, i Months, were spent by the stars ; in the remote interior of Mexico, : I their only means of. communication ; j with the outside world being by air-' air-' '! plane. : Its battle- scenes, including the i.'i storming and capture of Mexican cities which were in newspaper head-;dj head-;dj lines during the dozen years of i Villa's turbulent reign, have been classed with the unforgetable march "; of the Clansmen in "The Birth of a I Nation," with the chariot race in i "The Ten Commandments" and with 'l the Oklahoma land rush in "Cimar-I "Cimar-I ron" as soul-stirring spectacles. ; Added to its lavishness is a fic-j fic-j tional romantic story which runs - through the ; photoplay, presenting Beery for the first time in many years as a lover. With Beery in the notable cast appear Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray, Donald Don-ald Cook, Stuart Erwin, George E. Stone, Joseph (Schildkraut, Kath-' erine De Mille, Phillip Cooper, Frank Durand, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Adrain Rosley and Henry Armetfca! The picture was directed by Jack Conway. . n |
