INDIANS REVIVE INTER-TRIBE WAR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 3

INDIANS REVIVE INTER-TRIBE WAR.

FOR MOVIE JOBS. Indian warfare almost broke out on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona when the Red Man suffered a dose of movie craziness. That was the report brought back to Los Angeles by the Paramount company which filmed Zaire Grey’s “Wild Horse Mesa,” coming to the Regent Theatre, with a cast headed by Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Fred Kohler, Lucille La Verne, Gbarley Grapewin and Jim I'liorpe. The company needed 3'50 redskins for scenes in the picture. But all the Indians on the reservations wanted to be among that number. Inter-tribal warfare—of a. verbal nature, to be sure — threatened. Ultimately the matter was settled in a manner satisfactory to all. There are ten trading posts on the reservation. Each post was commissioned to choose 35 members of its own group to make up the total of 350. Jim Thorpe plays the role of the Indian chief in “Wild Horse Mesa.” As such, he is the friend of Scott, the hero, a hard riding' Westerner who has one eye on a white stallion roaming the mesa, and the other on a band of unscrupulous outlaw's, headed by Kohler, who are attempting to round up the wild horses by extremely brutal means. The outlaws get Miss Blane, her mother and uncle, to finance them, all ignorant of what they are actually to do. In a dramatic, fast-moving climax Scott disposes of the outlaw’s and wins the girl.