CRYSTAL PALACE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19147, 2 November 1927, Page 6

CRYSTAL PALACE.

"Drums of the Desert," a Zane Grey story, tells how a professor, bent on examining the ruins of ancient civilsation in the lands of the Indians,- travels into "their reservation with his daughter Mary. Unwittingly he penetrates, to the very inner temple of thelndians' God. The picture brings home with no little pathos the fact of the gradual disappearance of the race of redmen, who are compelled to stand by and see tbeir ancient hunting grounds turned into mines and fartns by the pitiless onward march of the white man's civilisation. All the glamour of the desert, of Indians, and the Mounted Police, of mystery and intrigue, aro hero combined. Yet "Drums of the Desert" differs- in some ways- from the usual "Wild West" picture in the air of reality it conveys, arid in the unwavering attention it. demands. The chief support is "Brown of Harvard," a rollicking picture of college life at one of iho greatest of America's universities. The hero, Brown, proves himself really versatile in his activities. One could not imagine a picturo more successful than this one in, portraying the love and laughter, sorrow and tears, that always go to make up life, even tho life of the carefree undergraduate. t