OPERA HOUSE, HAWERA TO-NIGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 6 May 1924, Page 8

OPERA HOUSE, HAWERA TO-NIGHT.

THE COVERED WAGON

( "The Covered Wagon" is a <*reat '■ araw." It is crammed full of real goo;] stuff. The true pioneer snirit pervades, the whole film—the desire to Plough and cultivate new lands and to band new homesteads for future generations. The eternal triangle is of course involved in the picture, and the three corners are p , riidiiig iwarly all the time, though not too prominently, ihere are some splendid views of the shooting tricks worthy of William Tell. ing their way across the apparently endless "No Man's Land." It is £ long slow trek. The difficulties are many, and some of the pioneers turn ' back and fade from the scene, probably to rail victims to marauding "Injuns '"' -*"* notable scouts figure "in the picture, and Indians there are in any number, painted and feathered horsenien who advance behind a screen of i bushes, and the spectators in. the Opera House can almost imagine the < blood-curdling yells ;:s they charge to the attack on the waggons, behind which men load and fire witli the speed of desperation. Then the Indians break the cordon of wagons; there is a wild, mad melee of shrieking shoutmg pale-faces and Indians with horses stampeding out of the enclosure. When ! it seems as if every girdle will wear a scalp that day, over the distent hills comes the rejief party, led by the hero. But even then the course of true love does not run smoothly, for the villain is a persistent heartless man ! -But JNemesis overtakes him in the end. \Vhat the spectators take away most iirom the film are the'"impressions of ' the pioneering life of 1817 its hard- ' ships and its. dangers. It is one of ' the best and healthiest pictures seen ' here, despite the. fact that a boy pio- j neer does "chaw terbacca'' and the scouts have a jamboree, following on which the scouts go out into the courtyard of the fort and do some subnet tricks worthy of William Tell or Rifleman Snnmonds. The box plan is at Mrs Cook's, Everybody's Sweet Store.