OPERA HOUSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10303, 12 January 1927, Page 2

OPERA HOUSE.

“THE IRON TnAIL.”

While all the world was watching Abraham Lincoln in the struggle to unite the North and South, few took into consideration tiffin, or since, that he was striving to link the East and West at the same time/ Without‘the aid of Lincoln the Pacific Railroad could not have been built, nor would the telegraph and express service have been established to strengthen the bonds between the Atlantic and the Pacific through the United States. All this tremendous story has been enacted for the screen in the William Fox special production “The Iron Horse,” which is finally showing at the Opera House to-day at the matinee. also to-night. One of the most picturesque sections of the Nevada ■ mountains served as a background for the picture. The trail breakers laid a pair of rails every thirty seconds, 200 pairs to the mile! Ten spikes to the rail and three sledge blows to a spike! A pair of rails laid and spiked every minute! A mile of track in three and a-half hours! Many of them wore army trousers and they “fell in” like soldiers, for they had just come from the ranks of the Union and Confederate armies. Their guns were stacked alongside the rails while they worked. The Sioux Indians were always hovering in the oiling, waiting for the slightest opportunity to strike. It makes a dramatic story — one which Robert Louis Stevenson do dared should he the great American work of literature—and the picture certainly takes its place among the outstanding productions of the screen. George O’Brien and Madge Bellamy luive'the lending roles, with the support of a large and talented cast, supplemented with regular soldiers and a whole tribe of Indians..