PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10411, 19 October 1927, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

WILD HOUSE MESA.”

Thp announcement that the Palace" Theatre to-night vail .show “Wild Horse Mesa,” Para mount's spectacular picturisatiou of Zane Grey's melodramatic novel ol the same name, is of esppctnl interest at this time, in view of the agitation that has arisen in many American States, for the legal destruction of the thousands of • wild horses that are roaming the plains. This wild horse problem is not new. It began in 1541 when the romantic Spaniards made their conquest of what is. now Mew Mexico. They, of course, brought their horses with them. 'These horses, whose beautiful and tlect forbears; -were roaming at will cent tunes ago in the grassy uplands and deserts ol the -Near East and North Africa,' take naturally to the life or the open country. Put the problem of catching them has always been a tough one. Unlike the buffalo, the wild’ horses did not travel in great herds, but went about in small droves so that it was impossible to round them up on a wholesale scale. Those caught were just as hard to break, indeed, we get the word ‘‘broncho'' from the Spanish, meaning ‘'unbreakable.” However, now that they haye proved such a serious nuisance war has been declared on them. In connection with Zane Grey’s production, it mav.be of interest to mention that ‘‘Wild Horse Mesa” was klmed entirely in the wild horse country or Arizona. George B. Seitz produced it from Lucien Hubbard’s adaptation and Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove,and Douglas'Fairbanks, p\, are the featured players.