THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 65, 4 March 1929, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

MUNICIPAL. Tom Mix scores again in his latest production for Fox Films, “Horseman of the Plains,” which opened on Saturday for its first local engagement at the Municipal Theatre. Mix s simple request to see the boss of the O’Day ranch brings down an .avalanche of adventure and intrigue about his ears. Dawn O’Day, owner of the ranch, is fighting a losing battle. Everything is heavily mortgaged and the grasping hand of the sheriff hangs perilously close. The hysterical girl enters her horses in the Trigertown sweepstakes and begs Tom Swift to ride for the honour of the O’Day Ranch. Rutherford Gates, a supposed friend of the family, attempts to tamper with her horses, but i he reckoned without Swift. Riding makes the other contestants look as though they are- standing still. Pounding down the home stretch with victory within his grasp, Swift battles with Gates and defeats him after a gruelling fight to a finish, winning the sweepstakes and the girl in his dashing, daring manner. COSY DE LUXE. Jack Holt sheds his chaps and cowboy trappings for a complete modern wardrobe in the Paramount picture, “The Water Hole,” a Zane Grey story which the Cosy Theatre is now showing, together with Rex, the equine star, in “Wild Blood.” Holt’s wardrobe in this picture consists of a modern business suit, a tuxedo, a golf outfit and swanky riding clothes. A cartridge belt and six shooters are accessories of the riding outfit. Part of the action of this picture takes place in a great eastern city, and part of it on the Navajo Indian reservation in northern Arizona. Exterior scenes of the production were taken at the picturesque Betatakin cliff ruins in the famous Segi Canyon in Arizona. Some of the sequences of “The Water Hole” are filmed in technicolour. NOLA LUXFORD IN PERSON. Manv recent arrivals to Hastings could not have known until the last few weeks that the town had a worthy representative in the American film world and some, on reading of the return to her (New Zealand) home town of Mrs. Bauernschmidt, •Inr., (Miss Nola Luxford) asked if thev could not see this star. Now is the one and only opportunity— Miss Nola Luxford, who returns to America, this week, after a lot of persuasion and being informed that she owed it to Hastings, has consented to appear at the Municipal Theatre on Tuesday evening and will give a short talk on movie life and a series of short and very interesting film scenes in which she has played will be shown. At Miss Luxford’s request the funds received will be devoted to the Hastings Plunket and District. Nurse Society. Patrons would be well advised to reserve at Hall’s for Tuesday evening for the Municipal Theatre.