Zane Grey Romance in “Wild Horse Mesa”

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7164, 24 May 1933, Page 5

Zane Grey Romance in “Wild Horse Mesa”

Zane Grey’s famous action-romance, ‘ ‘Wild-llorse Mesa,” made into a Paramount picture with a cast headed by Randolph Scott., Sally Blano, Fred Kohler, Lucille La Verne, Charley Grapewin and Jim Thorpe, has been booked for tho Kosy today with “He Learned About Women”.

Tho picture, which follows the novel closely, has as its central character, Chane Weymer, a hard-riding plainsman with his heart set on capturing a great white stallion leader of a herd of wild horses. Scott plays the role. Scott’s trouble with Kohler, head of a band of outlaws, come 3to a head when he blocks the latter’s attempt to capture the wild horses by extremely brutal means.

Kohler goes back to town, represents himself as a kind-hearted business man interested only in the horses, gets the hacking of Miss La Verne, her beautiful daughter, Miss B'lane, and her eccentric brother, Grapewin. Together they set out to round up tho equines. Meanwhile Scott and Kohler have had other difficulties, following the latter’s attempt to pin a robbery he has committed onto Scott’s younger brother. Out on tho mesa, Miss Blanc and Scott meet and fall in love. And when he tells her and her mother what they have gotten into, there follows a dramatic, breath-taking climax, in which Kohler and Scott settle their acounts

permanently, and from which Scott emerges with Miss 'Blanc’s love