ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 248, 17 September 1936, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY THEATRE. “DESERT GOLD.” A drama tingling with excitement and suspense, Paramount's “Desert Gold” is to screen to-day at the Kosy Theatre. The stirring tale of a white man’s treachery in his effort to obtain the last of an Indian tribe’s wealth, is the basis for one of tho most moving tales of the Old West. It is a story that only a master craftsman like Zane Grey could write. “Desert Gold” deals with a young Indian chieftain, abducted and horribly tortured by a villainous mine promoter and saved from death by a young mining engineer. This rcscuo results in a lasting friendship between tho young men which proves of great value later when tho engineer and his sweetheart are in danger. Attacked by desert bad-men, a terrific battlo ensues between them, with the Indians riding to tho rescue. Tho young couple aro themselves saved from death. The climax of the story makes a thrilling, fiery romance. “TOO MANY PARENTS.”

With Frances Farmer now under contract to Paramount in the leading role, “Too Many Parents,” which boasts five of Hollywood’s leading juvenile actors in its cast will also screen at the iCosy to-day. The youngsters who support Miss Farmer, Lester Matthews and Henry Travers in the picture of modern marriage and children of divorce, aro George Ernest, Sherwood Bailey, Buster Phelps, Douglas Scott, and Billy Lee, all veteran screen performers, some of them graduates of tho famous Our Gang comedy school. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER,” Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, and Sir Guy Standing head the cast of the above picture as officers of a colourful regiment. The Guy Standing, who plays a crusty, hardshelled colonel, and his subordinate officers. Cooper and Tone adopt Cromwell, the colonel’s impulsive son, as their special charge. When he becomes involved with a Russian girl and is carried off by a neigh bouring chieftain, Cooper and Tone follow, although the colonel refuses to go to his son’s rescue. They, too, are captured, and the chieftain employs torture to wring the secret of an enormous ammunition convoy from Cromwell. The chieftain captures the ammunition and tho Lancers, although they face certain destruction, prepare to attack in order to check the revolt which will follow. At this crucial moment Cooper hits upon a plan, and, first swearing the boy to secrecy on his own shameful betrayal, goes out to blow the fort to smithereens and save tho Lancers. That, in its essence, is the story. But it gives you no idea of tho wild, pounding charges, the stirring horsemanship, tho suspense and the fas cination of the glimpses of a strange and unexplored East that make “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” one of the grandest spectacles ever to be filmed. The cast features only one girl, Kathleen Burke.