, 1927-06-01
BARBARA WORTH AT
RIALTO JUNE 9-10-11
Harold Bell Wright's BEST Seller
To Be Shown on Screen
Picture Made in Nevada
Bad Lands

the West but a story of the win
ming OF the world" might be the
term applied to Henry Kings pro-
duction, 1.-THE Winning of Barbara
Worth" for Samuel Goldwyn, which
is to be shown at the Rialto Thea
tire Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
June 8, 10, and IL. r.
Much to the surprise of Henry
King, when he undertook the film
ing of this great epic of reclama
tion,, he discovered that it was no.
only an American picture as he had
believed, but an universal picture
in which people of nearly all ma
tons figured.
King had access to the data from
which the author. Harold Bell
Wright, originally wrote THE Win
ming of Barbara Worth" He dis
covered that out of 10000 original
settlers who made the first long
trek across the desert into the
country of LaPalma de la Mano de
Dois, there were twenty-three diff
ferent countries represented.
Out of the 10000 families COW
cred by the last census, $500 were
of English origin, many of whom
were the descendants of the early
pioneers on the East Coast. They
had retained something of the Won
derlust spirit which caused their
ancestors to leave Europe.
Four hundred and ninety-eight of
the families were of Teutonic de-
scent. Most of them had emigrated
directly from Germany and after
a stay in the East went on search
ing for new places where they
might establish their homes.
Surprisingly. there were 672 fam
flies of Swedes who came in a body
from the vicinity of Oslo, emigrated
to America and went on to the
West. The per centage of Spanish
blood in the old original pioneers
was very high, since the Spanish
were the original settlers in Califor,
MIA and the reclamation project ap-
pealed to them because of adverse
circumstances in which many had
lost their shares in the great Cal
%ifornia land grants. There were
1854 Spanish families in the orig
inal 10000.
There were also about 39G
French settlers, who had lived in
a little settlement in eastern New
York since the days when theil
ancestors had been elected from
Arcadia during the French and En-.
glish wars.
In addition there were 902 fam.
lilies of mixed Italian and Portuguese
descent.
As this was the period before the
immigration laws had gone into eff
feet. Oriental races were proper
tionately rather highly represented
with a total of almost 700 Japan
ese and Chinese families.
The remainder OF the 10000
were made up of families of no
known ancestry, although Slavic
races predominated.
Amazed by this discovery of the
many races concerned in what he
had thought TO be a truly American
hegira. Henry King determined that
he would make the picture with a
true melting pot of the races who
mad gone into the making of the
America OF today.
With that idea In view, he chose
his characters for 1.-The Winning of
Barbara Worth" from people of all
races, demanding only that they
display physical evidences of the
pioneer impulses which go to make
up the bedrock of American am.
oition and effort.
Out OF the 1000 Inhabitants who
went to make up the unique mo-
ton picture city of Barbara Worth.
Nevada, we find In the principals.
the Hungarian represented by VII
ma Banky; the English. by Ronald
Colman; the Scotch by Paul Nc
Allister and e. ]. Radcliffe: the
Irish by Erwin Connolly. and the
native American by Gary Cooper.
Among the extras there were
some 200 Germans, 200 Italians,
500 Spanish and Mexicans, 800
Swedes and approximately $50 ma
tive American types.
Nor were the Oriental races neg
lected, for there were at least a
dozen Chinese and Japanese who
took prominent parts among the
minor characters in the film.
The Winning of Barbara
Worth" is sympathetic to all races
declared King. ut must be, because
the problem of reclamation and irrl-
cation is not confined to any one
country. but is universal in scope.
The United States is made up of
citizens of all countries and during
the period of history which we
show they have not been complete
ly amalgamated into the American
spirit. The work is still going on.
as the work of irrigation is still
going on and will continue for CEN