"WILD HORSE MESA"

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3079, 12 April 1927, Page 7

"WILD HORSE MESA"

SPECIAL ZANE GREY PICTURE

FOR SCREENING AT LEESTON

The Leeston Pictures Committee is

screening a special programme next Saturday in which the main picture is the Zane Grey drama, "Wild Horse Mesa, 3' a thrilling romance of the '.vest filmed in Arizona, 'midst the wild horse country and teeming with thrills, action and adventure. The theme is founded upon that great Australian poem, "The Man from Snowy River," written by "Banjo" Patterson. Good natured Lige Melborne runs a store in a little Western hamlet, but is facing failure, when Bent Manerubf sells him the idea of using a largequantity of barb wire, which ho has in j stock, to fence in a part of a mesa and I to trap wild horses. The scheme is to catch and sell them. Soon .\fter ihey arrive at the location of the wild horses and get the wire in place, Chane I Weymer, a hcrse buyer, who has been [chased by Bud McPherson's gang, ar- v rives in camp thoroughly exhausted S and is nursed back to health. Hp falls jin love with Sue Melborne. Chane finally shows Lige the cruelty of the plan for trapping the horses and he decide i to abandon the project. Ben Mazier- : übe leaves after being thrashed by ! Chane and still angry, joins Bud, who, iwith his gang, have come to rob the , Melborne outfit of the few horses that they might have caught. They join forces and agree to carry through with the brutal scheme, dividing the spoils between them. They start-a stampede of horses, but Chane manages to head them off, and then the gang make prisoners of Chane and the Melbornes. But an Indian chief whose daughter ha;been wronged by Bud, shoots the lead ers of the gang from ambush and the party is rescued. Back in the little hamlet Chane and Sue* decide to marry. The east includes Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks junr,, George Magrill, George Irving, Edithe Yorke, Bernard Seigle and Mar garet Morris. On account of the extra cost of renting this special picture, the prices for admission have been raised to 1/6 for adults, but prices for children will be as usual.