PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11012, 27 January 1926, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

“DICK TUI?PIN.” Tom Mix may ; have appeared strangely clad when he flashed before his theatre-going friends at the Palace Theatre last night, as Dick Turpin, the gay young English stage robber of the early Eighteenth C-enr tury, because, instead of the familiar Stetson sombrero, chaps and cowpuncher’s shirt they saw him in velvet coat, satin breeches, ostrich plumed Kevenmuller hat and with a. sword at his side. Decause he robbed the rich and gave to the poor, this laughing rogue was called the ‘‘Robin Hoed of the Roacl.” He was loved hy the poor, and hated by the rich, and in the picturization of his short career his kindly deeds, and dai’ing exploits are well revealed. The high spot' in the picture as accomplished by Mix and the magnificent black. mare he trained to enact the role of Black Bess, is the “ride to York.” 'Another fine feature is a historically correct reproduction of a savage fight under the now obsolete rules of the London Ring; the boxers meeting with bare knuckles. A perfect representation of the ring in the historic Blue Boar Inn lias been built and in the fight between “Old Buekhorse” and Turpin, substituting for “Bully Boy” Tom enters the ring and fights a corking battle.