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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 15, 16 October 1942, Page 8

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Universal'* "North to the Klondike,'' a roaring adventure film of pioneering' clays in Alaska, is the forthcoming attraction at the Grand Theatre. i>rod Crawford heads a east of well-known playors that includes Andy Devine. Lon Chancy, Evelyn Ankers. Lloyd Dorothy Granger, Kvye J.like. "Willie Fung and hundreds of others. "North of lllie Klondike" has a hackground of the famous Matanuska Valley in the year 1911, and tells the story of a Avar between settlers and a group of crooked miners, who arc trying to drive them out. Two energetic young pranksters from the New York stage have been giving each other a liberal education in the strange ways of ilie movies. Arthur Kennedy, who plays Brenda Marshall's gunman husbaijd in "'Highway West," got the start of his education when he sat clown to the grand piano upon which he was supposed to rehearse as Jimmy Cagney's younger brother in "City For Conquest." lie suddenly found that his fingers were all sticky from white paste on - the ivory keys. It was just a little trick Kennedy's New York pal, Elia Kazan, who was with him in "City For Conquest," learned from a studio prop boy.