“BEGGARS OF LIFE”
TRAMP STORY FOR PLAZA Wallace Beery, for more than a year continuously in comedies, returns to a dramatic characterisation in "Beggars of Life,” the story of a tramp which Paramount made from Jim Tully’s personal narrative of the same name, and which will be shown at the Plaza and Tivoli Theatres next Thursday.
Beery, with Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks and 75 other Hollywood screen artists, spent several weeks in what an expert describes as “the world’s most perfect tramp jungle,” near Jacumba, on the Mexican border.
The spot, found during weeks of searching by studio location hunters, served for three weeks as the background for some of the most important action of “Beggars of Life.” Jungles are regular meeting places of tramps, known from one end of the country to the other, where they meet, exchange news, cook their food, mend their clothes, and rest a day or two before continuing their ramblings.
“Beggars of Life” is a gripping, sweeping panorama of tlie pleasures and vicissitudes of those who tramp the highways and byways of the world. Into the moving, tragic theme of it Tully has interwoven a pattern of lightness and love.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 14
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