STRAND THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19447, 22 October 1928, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME. '•

Buck Jones in "Tha Flying Horseman heads the hill at the Strand-Theatre this week. Mark Winton a wondering cowboy, habn't a care in the world, his attention being: given to his horse White Eaglo, whom he wants' to enter for the Comanche" free-for-all, the prize being 20,000 dollars! route to Los . Santos, Mark encounters a family of eight youngsters, whose father is a derelict, Happy. Joe. Bert Ridley accuses the. boys of frightening his stock, but when they deny it Ridley starts to lash them. Mark cleans him up, incurring. Ridley's enmity. Rustlers have been stealing Colonel Savary 8 Btock, and Ridley manages\to throw suspicion upon Mark, who is arrested'. . Colonel Savary hopes to square accounts with Ridley, "to whom he is undsr an obligation when way Lady wins the Comanche race. Ridley has entered Queen of Spades, and has his confederate poison the Colonel's entry. The j eignt kids of "Happy Joe" hear of Mark s imprisonment, rush to town, and by shinning up to the cell window tell him the news. Mark urges Happy Joe to enter White Eagle, but the white* streak throws every cowman who endeavours to ride. him. Mark escapes, dashes to the starting point at the hour of the race and wins. As the judgeß pay the twenty thousand to' Mark he hands it to June Savary and begs her to cancel her father's financial obligations at the. expense of White Eagle. The kids, thinking this a fine plan,, hurl-a floral wreath over the heads of Mark and June, and Mark faces the barrier -in' the Life Handicap. _ ' Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, in Loyj era," episode 4 of "The Trial of the Tiger a comedy, a cartoon, and a topical, complete the offering.