The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-19
UNION PACIFIC
 ON STATE SCREEN
Greatest Production of Cecil DeMiIIe Opens Here
 This Afternoon

A thousand and one thrills are promised amusement seekers at- tending Warner Brothers State the- ater over the weekend for starting today, Cecil B. DeMille's sixty fifth and greatest production Union Pa cific" will thunder across the screen at that popular theater.
 Settlers, gold-seekers, dance-hail girls, cattle drovers, scotlndrels and men of vision all play an important part in this production which, in the opinion of critics, is the great est adventure picture of all.
 A star-packed cast topped by Bar bara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea bring this exciting story of the building of Americas first trans continental railroad to the screen. Featured in the supporting cast of thousands are Akim Tamiroff, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Lynne Overinan, Robert Barrat and Eve- 1yn Reyes.
 Miss Stanwyck, as the frey daughter of the Union Pacif1c's first engineer and the postmistress of the town that moves perpetually westward with the construction of the railroad, and McCrea, as the robust trouble shooter" sent out by Washington when trouble-makers threaten the construction of the road are said to give outstanding performances in the lead roles. Their whirling romance is in keeping with the made pace of the times in which 1t took place.
 The story of the film starts in Washington, when the great men of the nation decide upon the building of the road, and then moves on to lend of track, the locale of most of the action of the picture. This lend of track, the WeStermost point reached by builders after each days work is a lusty and gaudy place. Its spirit is that of the boom town of boom towns; and its inhab- itants are principally rodwy Irish railroad workers, western bandits sharpers of every description, fron- tiersmen and dancehall girls out fol adventure.
 This is the condition that exists when Joel McCrea in the role of trouble-shooter Jeff Butler arrives at lend of track, to find out that the main cause of all the trouble is notorious gambler and sharper Brian Donlevy in the role of Sid Campeau who operates a dance hall at the settlement, lures the men away from their work with gamb- ling, liquor and women and insti- gates Indian attacks against the crew.
 Dozens of popular players are seen in unusual roles in the pro- duction. Akim Tamiroff, famed character actor is seen as a rowdy Mexican railroad cop who brings his own kind of law and order to the west at the point of a bullwhip. Lynn Overman holds up the comedy end of the picture as 8 hard-as- nails fur-trapper and pioneer, and of course. Brian Dunlevy is the sharper who is hired by financiers to sabotage the project.
 Bulldog Drummond, the man of many adventures, will be seen in the second big attraction Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police." In this the latest of the series, the king of thrills meets his greatest menace. John Howard is starred in the lead with Heather Angel taking the leading feminine role.
 On Tuesday the State will pre- sent another big double feature bill with Bob Burns in I'm From Mis- souri" as the feature also Hotel Imperial" Coming soon are Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in "Only Angels Have Wings" and Fay Bain- ter in The Lady and the Mob."