ENTERTAINMENTS
Opera House “The Red Pony” starring Robert Mitchum and Myrna Loy. “The Red Pony,” based on John Steinbeck’s beloved novel showing at the Opera House tonight. The story is built around the gift of a small red pony to nine-year-old Tom Tiflin. The father, Fred, is a former schoolteacher who has never been able to adjust himself to the ranch life so natural to his genteel wife, Alice, and his young son. Fred finds it impossible to get on an equal footing with the neighbours, all of whom address him as “Mr Tiflin” whfen he longs to be called by his first name. It seems to Fred that he is excess baggage around the ranch. ■ Even Tom turns to Billy Buck, the hired man for help in training the pony, rather than to his father. Fred vents most of his resentment upon his old father-in-law- whose wishful identification with the past irritates the unhappy man. When the pony, dies, bringing depthless grief to young Tom, the family situation is - brought to a fast, heart-warming culmination.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 June 1950, Page 7
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