The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-06-27

down to its warped standards. Bit
terly the last of the pioneers sit
on the sidelines watching the pres
ent and lamenting the past.
Paris Mitchell dominates the
picture Of this town that was out
to get anyone who would not con-
form. Strength and idealism were
the heritage his pioneer forebears
had handed down to him. The mix
ture Of sensitivity and practically
made it possible for Paris Mitch
ell to assert himself, with decep-
tive ease, against the powerful, al
most inflexible, mores of Kings
Row." Sharply contrasted with
Paris is his friend Drake McEugh,
who could do nothing but dream
his great visions of what Kings
Row" should be. When swift trag-
edy strikes, he is saved by the love
of his Irish sweetheart and the
friendship of Paris. Warmly and
sympathetically these three win
through to the brightness outside
the dark, forbidding circle that was
Kings Row."
The characters that block their
path out of the chamber of horrors
that is every small town on the
make, are many and varied. There
is the revered doctor, practicing
his concealed sadism; the district
attorney, pursuing his schoolboy
hatreds to the bitter end, in one
case to the gallows; the town grave
digger and common hangman, with
his professional, speculative way of
looking at mans neck. Against
such as these and the multiple
meanness of Kings Row." the
forces of good fight their battle
for decency and freedom and beau
ty. To the aid of Paris Mitchell
and Drake McHugh come kind
hearted Mrs. Skeffington; the SEN
sible earthly Catholic priest; the
broad visioned, clean-minded hand
full of pioneers who had founded
Kings Row." 1t is a long battle
and hard one, a battle that makes
fast, absorbing reading because it
is a closeup of the struggle we
all fight at one time or another in
our lives.
The secret of evil is too deep for
any one man to understand. The
defeat of evil is something that fills
us all with satisfaction and hope.
Paris Mitchell pays for his victory
with loneliness. It is heavy price
but it is great triumph. It Is
too much for one who has come
through the black depths of Kings
Row" into the clear light of day
with his idealism and decency in
tact.
I MARRIED ADVENTURE
BY johnson
The lives of Martin and Osa
Johnson who for 20 years faced
life and adventure in dangerous
jungles in all corners of the world.
(The book appears almost stimuli
taneously with the motion picture,
also entitled I Married Adventure
and based on the lives of this
famous couple) At the age of six
teen Martin Johnson left INDIE
pendence, Kansas, and started
roaming. A globe trotter while still
in his teens, at twenty he went off
with Jack London on the Shark"
When he returned to Kansas he
met Osa Leighty-and soon they
were married. Their first joint ex-
petition was to islands near Bor-
neo in the South Seas, where cam
nibals still existed. and here they
even very narrowly escaped with
their lives. Between their list and
last trips they encircled the globe
six times, experiencing their hap
piest years in Africa. One year
they explored the entire continent
of Africa by airplane; another,
they made the first sound pictures
ever attempted Of the gorillas in
the Belgian Congo and the Pig
mics Of the Ituri Forest. Martin
Johnson films are familiar to
every man. woman and child in
America. This book, richly illus
trated with his pictures, is last
ing memorial to the worlds great
est Photographic explorer.