ON THE SCREEN.

Matamata Record, Volume XI, Issue 934, 5 July 1928, Page 4

ON THE SCREEN.

HINUERA AND TE POI. , , , . ! . # In these -days of modem civilisation, it is hard to realise that there are still places on the - globe where a white man is in constant danger of attack from savage natives who retain their primal instinct to kill or be killed. This condition still prevails iri parts of British East Africa and it is this background that Cynthia Stockley, the’ noted author, has taken her latest story, “ The. Claw,” the screen version of which will be shown at the Hinuera and Te Poi halls on Friday and Saturday next.

MATAMATA. “ Back to God’s Country,” - a dynamic tale of the North, from James Oliver Curwood’s ever-popular novel of the same name, and has been made into a really spectacular production. The story might be 2|kened to the snow country, full of surprises to the explorer travelling its smooth, sparkling surface. He plows through snow drifts, rises on knolls from where he can overlook the placid sea of snow, then to the top of a mountain range whence he sees the boundless panorama of Nature’s mighty creation. It will be screened at Matamata on Saturday. !' Forty-niners, the bold. adventurers , who rushed to California gold fields in the middle of ;the last century, , figure in a rieW way in “The Gay Defender/*' Richard Dix’s latest Paramount picture, coming to the.rTown .Hall next Friday. Heretofore treated as ; heroes in screen-dMmasj the gold seekers in “The Gay Defender ” are played up as villains,; while Dix, in the, heroic role as a-native Mexican, is driven to banditry; by oppression of the unscrupulous prospectors.

MONDAY’S SPECIAL.

“ The Magic Flame.”

According to Samuel Goldwyn, its producer, “The Magic Flame,”.which comes to the Matamata Town Hall on Monday, was made for the entire world and can never be classified as being a “truly American,” or, for that matter, as a “ foreign ” picture. Like Shakespeare and the comic strips, its story is intended to entertain anyone, regardless of nationality or language.