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PANCHO VILLA RETURNS
It is given to few men to bo como
legends in their own time, but when this condition arrives, nothing can stop it or dispel.it; it continues to grow and grow until it is almost a ritual; every pronale event achieves its due glamour and every act be comes another manifestation of the myth.
Something like this was true of Pancho Villa, saviour of his people and one of the most spectacular desperadora our times have known.
And now Wallace Becry will bring the Mexican bandit to lite In Mero-Goldwyn-Mayer'a fictional story of his extraordinary career. "Viva Villa!" is now showing on the screen of the Queen's Theatre on Sunday after many months of netual location in Mexico.
Villa's tempestuous early years were so crowded with daring and unprecedented Insurrections that his name immediately became a symbol of hope and fear strangely mingled. The mere mention of him in any household, on RAY rond, struck Intense emotional associations and a flood of tall stories.
Pancho Villa was that kind of
man
In other ages his kind could have flourished anywhere, and did In great profusion. In recent years that is, during the last century--Mexico was his natural territory.
A striking character study of Wallace Berry in his lat- vet seraen vols as the world. Mexican Leader, Pancho Ville. At right, a photo of the real Fouché Vula takem shortly before the capturn of Jumer.
For Villa's iden of Hving was Bot something that came from within himself but from his soll. the soil of an oppressed and primaltive and backward country, tremendous bogey whom the poor
In a country where a handful of rich landowners control the hous- Ing and feeding of the entire population and abuse or indulge the workers exactly as they please. it is inevitable that a Robin Hood rise In defence of the people.
A Robin Hood who mercilessly attacks and plunders the rich in order to ald the poor-or, at least, to see that the poor are no longer beaten and deprived.
And the was Villa.
But The Robin Hood of to-day is perforce more bitter and desperate than the despoiler of ather years. He cannot be quite sn light-hearted and rasy-going. He is out to kill because he considers his imminent vietima an nrtual menace to the enmmunity. Is depredations are not indivktual triumphs bat effort to settle the entire govern- ment structure of the country.
And. for this, Villa became A romantle figure, a saviour and a
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loved and the rich abhorred.
Ile never meant to be romantic at all. His own children had been so ugly, so full of paverty and deprivation, that it took no more than an early experience to decide his whole way of life,
When a child of eight, Pancho Villa anw his father being whipped to death by a hacendado (a land- owner) who had suddenly been empowered to take possession of the particular nere on which they. lived.
Pancho never forgot this. At that moment, whether he knew it or not, his whole existence became consecrated to the sheer ideal of avenging this anything but u common crime.
For the crime was not in isolat- ed event, not a thing in itself: it was a symbol of tyranny and oppression. And the boy, Pancho swore he would wide this out of n
soil that knew sufficient suffering without such brutalitica.
That he was recurrently side- tracked in his originally landable desire is a truth demonstrated in his life and in the picture, but the explanation is clear.
He was a violent and passionate man by nature. Once he began something and became involved In It to the poiut of high enthusiasm, he had a tendency to forget why he was doing it and to end, by doing it entiroly for its own sake.
This is a pardonable enough tendency when the activity. is a harmless and casual one-but Pancho neither knew when to stop getting married nor when to ston killing people.
The result was that he was performing brutal constantly wholesale actions whose motivat-
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When this was pointed out to Villa, he was invariably amazed at what he had done and fn- variably convinced by the right- noss of the reproof. He would swear never to do it again.
And then word would come to him of the injustices practiced by some landowners or some military officials and he would promptly organize his countless and always changing band of desperadoes-- and, before he knew it, he had forgotten his promises and was exercising no control whatever in his page and executions.
It took a small and delicate man with a gentle voice to get a check on him the like of which Pancho Villa hnd never before recognized and certainly never heeded.
Francesco Madero, called the Christ-Fool, was utterly against Villa and all his violence, not because he did not believe in militant struggle against the land- owners but because this scarcely struck at the root of the evil,
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to make Vilin see the truth of this klon.
Villa saw it.. for as long na Villa could see anything without forgetting why he had began it. He put himself under Madero's command as an official military performer and for a time behaved. in accordance with formal tactics. Then he heard of a city where appalling abuses were going on. And what was his next step?
Right. He broke faith in his agreements with Madero and went on to do with the city as he and his followers chose.
Men of Villa's stamp offer a mixed contribution toward the anlvation of their country from misery,
On the one hand, they make lethargie people vitally aware of the wrongs and abuses of an in- equable state.
On the other hand, they encour age violent and irresponsible men. to launch themselves on enroers of banditry and rapine in the name of Rome vague ideal of reform which they have only partially grasped.
The result is that Pancho Villa rules over two camps in the hearts and memories of his countrymen."
To eliminate certain wrongdoers
There are those who consider ho might be useful for the moment. Insofar BЯ
it prevented their did nothing but harm to Mexico countenancing personal further functioning-but did not by prevent further wrongdoers from roguery and thoughtless depreda-; rising and having an opportunity tion. to abuse people all over again. The possibilities for the mere development of such a thing had to be removed.
Madero's idea was to seize the government itself. And he tried
And there are those who stand convinced that his vision and his passion served to create the belt- asnects of the modern state-or will, at least, be the basis for the future Ideal`atate":
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