MAURICEVILLE PICTURES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 7

MAURICEVILLE PICTURES

“GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT." “Shall. California belong to the wheat-growers, who bring food-crops from the soil each year, or to the hydraulic miners, whose terrific streams of water tear away the hillsides and ruin the adjacent farming lands?” In the 1870's in America that was the burning question of the day. Men fought about it. Many were killed and the peace of the whole Golden State was disturbed. This situation forms the basis of “Gold Is Where You Find It,” a magnificent motion picture which will be shown at Mauriceville on Saturday night. It is a Warner Bros, production, made- in technicolour and is a great, sweeping drama that held audiences spellbound. By far the larger part of the action is outdoors, in nature’s own tints. Co-starring are George Brent as an .Eastern mining engineer in charge of the hydraulic mining, Olivia DeHavilland as the daughter of the leading wheat-grower of the region, Claude Rains. There are plots, counter-plots, floods, dynamiting and constant turmoil before they reach their ultimate happiness. Taking part in all this action are such fine players as Margaret Lindsay. John Lite!, Tim Holt (husky young son of the veteran Jack Holt). Sidney Toler, and a score of others, plus thousands of extras. It is one of the outstanding photodramas of the season.