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Deseret News from Salt Lake City, Utah • 32

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Deseret Newsi
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Salt Lake City, Utah
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SERET NEWS' SATURDAY, MATCH 10, 1973 r- MsaIc39a hey PUGRAKTS ff 11 Slat 115 By Howard Pearson Deseret News Theater Editor The Emigrants, one of five pictures nominated for best-movie Oscar, will be an emotion-wrought and fascinating experience to thousands of Utahns. To the elder'y, it will recall personal experiences if they came to America from other lands. To many, many others, it will be like hearing of personal experiences from their parents or grandparents or reading journals or dianes. The Emigrants" is the story of a group of Swedes who come to America in the 1850s. They If Salt lake's Ltsdiisj florist' movie review Ammonium Sulphate i't I (BrownS) GREEN-UP111 THE LAWN ft GARDEN PEPPER.

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HtH w' RECCSIMQrtEDSPRBfQ 7J COVERAGE: 4.CBD Q. FT. Liv Ullmann portrays a farm wife who follows her husband to America in the days of the great emigration in "The Emigrants." "Fresh-Cut" DAFFODILS IQ Real Spring Sunshine, Large Sun- King Real Spring Sunshine, Large Sun- FOR shine Yellow Trumpets Kine TMr Alfies. (Minimum Purcfcugo for have tired of the harsh life in their native country of losing their crops because of too little water one year and too much the next They are tired of the short growing season. A demeaning, tyranicaL demanding religious system has become too much for them.

The system of indenture, by which young men are controlled by older ones for tilling the soil has become unbearable. The young daughter of one family dies a horrible death and their barn. burns down when lightning hits. Thats the straw. They have heard that in America everything is easier.

A young man in one family has been reading glowing reports about the lush soil in America, about how trains reach speeds of 15 miles an hour or more and of rich crops in America. All this is told via cinematic masterpieces in the film. The pictures and scenes, the dialope and the acting communicate the story with telling effect The picture has so many honest scenes of a farm and of the difficult times experienced by the fanners that an audience can almost feel them. The main family consisting of Karl Oskar (Max Von Sydow) and his wife, Kristina (Liv Ull-mann), Karls brother and children are joined by a half dozen others to make the trip to America. Remember, this is in the 185Gs.

They are in the steerage of a sailing vesseL Only tent-like affairs furnish them any privacy. The ocean voyage is fraught with sickness and tragedy. Three of the number die on the ship and are buried in stark and heart-rending ceremonies, especially one conducted for a child and another for the wife of one of the group. The emigrants feel they are going to die at sea, that they never should have left home. Only their Delivery 3.50) GERANIUM Let jhe Sunshine gf PLANTS through in Bud Bloom SACRIFICE PRICE handles the long grass, and carves his name high in a tree and then slumps down its trunk with a satisfied smile on his face, audiences will know that America has fulfilled his dreams at that time.

To those who might have read of Woodrow Wilsons words to a group of similar emigrants a few years later, this scene will have a further impact: We grow great by dreams you brought your dreams with you and you enrich us if you come expecting us to be better than we are. And so The Emigrants is a mighty picture, powerful in its simplicity and earthiness, beautiful in its presentation, inspiring in its theme and message. The people are real people, the story is a real story. The Emigrants was nominated for several other Oscars, including that of best actress for Liv Ullmann, a performer wrho seems to live the role. The picture will begin its first-run engagement Wednesday at the Studio Theater.

A sequel is being prepared, to be known as The New Land. vision of what life win be like in America buoys their spirits, keeps them going on. When they reach America, they still face hardships the inability to communicate, their fear of trains and minor uncomfortable situations. But they have reached their promised land. In one scene, Karl Oskar divides an apple with his wife and children.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful apple? he asks. I know this particular scene had impact After the screening, one man told me about his father who came to America from his native Norway in 1905. He arrived in Chicago with enough money to pay for passage to Salt Lake and had a nickle left over. With that, he bought an apple and thats all he had on the journey to Salt Lake, this particular man said. The Emigrants has many scenes that will bring similar reactions from audiences all over the state.

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The original Trader Horn was MOMS first talking picture and was made on location in Africa. The second is being made in San Fernando Valley, West, and the Malibu Mountains. Then theres another difference. The first Trader Horn script was only OKd by the studio bosses, but the new ones been OKd by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Liza Minelli in Cabaret," Diana Ross in "Lady Sings The Blues, Maggie Smith in Travels With My Aunt, Cicely Tyson in Sounder, and Liv Ullmann in The Emigrants and any one of them could win.

wed and many other Gives your lawn a balanced feeding. Kills most lawn insects. SUPER PAX 98 IMTEmpiNJf ITF1S INC, 486-7444 HOLLYWOOD (NANA) -The early line on the Oscar race shows Marlon Brando to be the odds-on favorite to get bis second award. Surprisingly, A1 Pacino, who really was the star of The Godfather, was nominated for best supporting actor along with Jimmie Caan and Robert Duvall in the same picture. While that division makes Brandos win a near certainty, it also could well wipe out the trios chances.

Its bad enough when two actors are nominated from the same picture such as Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine for Sleuth. In the womens top acting category, theres a race on. written Continued from Page D-l lot of thinking about what I want to say before I start writing and then the writing comes a little easier than it otherwise would. I dont have to sweat blood." One of Dr. Larsons 28 plays, Mantle of the Prophet, has been performed all over the country and has been presented on at least 28 stages, the author said.

He noted that actually his new play is the second of a two-part series he planned on Joseph Smith. The new production has a prologue that concerns his childhood, and then the rest of the drama focuses on events leading up to the martrydom. Dr. Larson has had hundreds of articles and poems as well as plays published in magazines throughout the country. They have dealt with religion, history and nature.

He also has written plays for children. A former reporter and as sistant state editor for the Deseret News, Dr. Larson has served a mission to England for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was there until 1941 and was In the Air Force from 1943 through 1945. Then he returned to school, obtaining a masters degree from the University of Utah in 1817.

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