PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

•THE GifE AT DIVIDE ' 5 Reginald Barker directed “The Great Divide” which is finally screen•mg at the Palace to-night. The picture for the most part was filmed in Arizona, the locale of the romance. Hr Barker was particularly pleased with the assignment, for he was stage director for Henry Miller when the hotter triumphed in the William Vaughan Moody play. After considering a number of prominent men and women ivr the tv /j leading roles, Alice Terry and Conway Tearle were selected. They represent the ideal types for the loies of Bntli Jordon and Stephen Ohent, and are worthy of carrying successfully two such prominent and significant parts. Others in the oast re Wallace Beery, Huntly Gordon, £asu Pitts, Allan Forrest and Ford Grerling. The Painted Desert of Arizona, one of the wonder spots of the world, and particularly of the southvest, which is barely known despite its Beauty a.nd fascination, forms the setting tor some of the most important actions of ‘‘The Great Divide.” ■>o Painted Desert with all its wonder and mystery and lure of color-and light and remoteness, with the tang cl high, cool, _ lavender blooming mesas set like islands of rock in shifting; seas of gaudy colored sand, with tne romance and the adventure and the movement of the most picturesque horsemen in America.” So this unique land is described by Agnes C. Lauh. “The Great Divide” tells a story which has a particular appeal to women, for it is the tale r a girl who- after years of conventional living in a prim New England village is suddenly thrust upon a life with a man of the open which is so stranga to her that she is baffled completely and unable to grasp the threads of her new existence.