THE PICTURES.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 72, 8 September 1925, Page 2

THE PICTURES.

11 KIDIN ’ WILD.” ! Mother-i Ib<? world over have an indeniable fault: they love their child i ■ I too much. They make life hard who; ! they mean it to be soft. This is <h< I theme of the Univ« rml picture, of whi< | Hoot Gibson is th ■ star, showing nt Jr I Picture Theatre to-morrow night. Tin I dory, ■ • i- ;■ i>• ’ Wild,” *.. • • writt m pai I ticularly for Gibson’s use, as the ;ir.< j s! p in a policy of taking him out of i tho straight Western pictures, ft is c<u i tainly true that this story, without, ii: . gun an#. the des. rt chase*, would fit an; I locale. The fact that the West is ;h< | local * is only incidental. Unable io <’< j anythin.'!; t}mt the other fellows <•< without hurting his mother’s feelings i the climax comes to the troubles o' j Cyril Henderson when his mother ask; [him not tQ go out with a posse that i being Xiurrtodly gathered for a mar ; hunt. He doesn’t go. .Pate puts the ! merits of his trouble into a line di ma: and gives JKhi a chance to own up to .•• [murder anw a few other rough boys' 1 games, th<wughlv satisfying even iht 1 meanest gun carriers in ihe community. I It is probably the most human role that 'Gibson has played. He, of course, 'is plays bravery in a later phase of ib< story, but i.n the first part of it hi cle: i h portrays the helph -> ar<i. 'i'l story i. a’t a charge aim ■ mot hers i j is simply a statement of the .fact J a i they love their children too much. Tip. is a fine pieture, really worth .« < inp;. Supports include an International News, ja two-reel Western drama, a iwo-reo* I comedy, ami the final episode oi i * ‘ Beasts of I’aradiso. ’ ’