ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 38, 24 November 1937, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. One of the most unusual films seen in Ashburton for a long time is “The Devil Doll,” which will be shown finally this evening at the St. James Theatre. The audience last evening found it to be thrilling entertainment. A Pete Smith film is on the programme. In “The Cattle Thief,” which shows at the St. James Theatre to-morrow night and at two sessions on Frida) 7 , Ken Maynard appears in a dual role, enacting the part of an itinerant peddler and a mysterious rider of the Robin Hood type, who drops his disguise at crucial times to race to the aid of a group of honest cattlemen harassed by ruthless rustlers. “The Cattle Thief” revolves about a villainous ranch foreman, Ward Bond, who keeps his stricken employer a prisoner on his own ranch and then seeks to prevent the other ranchers from driving their herds of cattle through a pass in the mountains on the ranch. The ranchers face ruin as a result of this. It is Maynard, disguised as a peddler, driving a rickety waggon loaded with pots, pans, trinkets and cowboy supplies who rides into action as the bitter feud begins. No one suspects the doddering, slow-speaking peddler as the mysterious rider whose heroic deeds time and again save the lives of the ranchers in their battles with the cruel desperadoes. The second film on the programme is the “Mystery of the Mary Celeste,” a film version of what occurred on the famous vessel before she was found deserted.