STRIKING PROGRAMME

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12406, 27 March 1926, Page 7

STRIKING PROGRAMME

DE LUXE THEATRE “WILD HORSE MESA” AND STEREOSCOPIC. ever, there was a picture which fine sentiments and action m Banjo PatterW^ g £ ?t -“ The From Smowy River,” it is “Wild Horse nS«* rrn h °r n f ? r the first tim ® at De si? last and it is fatting that the genial manager, Mr H. K Wood should put on one of Zane Ur ®y 8 , *> est sellers” wljen the notable aU rJi| lor , 18 ln the Dominion. ,Jhe thrilling stampede of 5f)00 horses Uf a scene that beggars description, but the picture shows it in 411 its wonderful reality. The cast of players presented is one of the most popular combinations seen in Western pictures. Jack. Holt is th© hero,, a hard-riding horse dealer; who is friendly with the Indians; Billie Dove, as beautiful and charming as ever is .the heroine, while the bad man is Noah Beery. Others in the cast are well chosen and are • headed by Douglas Fairbanks, junior. To summarise the 6tory, good-natured Lige Melbourne runs a store in a little Western hamlet, but is facing failure when Bent Manerube sells him the idea of using a large quantity of barbed wire, which he has in stock, to fence part of a mesa to trap wild horses, catch and sell them. They get the wire in place when Chane Weymer, a horse buyer, who has been chased by Bud McPherson’s gang, arrives in camp thoroughly exhausted and is nursed hack to. health. He falls in love with Sue Melbourne. Chane shows Ligo the cruelty of the plan for trapping the horses_ and he decided to abandon the project. Manerube leaves after being thrashed by Chane and joins Bud’s gang, , which has'come to rob the Melbourne outfit of the few ; horses that they might have caught. They join forces to carry through the scheme, dividing the Spoils between them, and stampede the horses, but Chane manages to head them off and then the gang make prisoners of Chane and the Melbournes. But an Indian chief, whose daughter has been wronged by Bud, shoots the leaders of the gang from ambush and the party is rescued. Back in the little hamlet Chane and Sue decide to marry, and the picture ends on a happy theme. There is a topical news film 'and another of those marvellous stereoscopio pictures which were the rage when first introduced to Wellington at De Luxe a few weeks ago, but—this one excels the other and will cause "wonderment to adults and children. Juveniles should take advantage-of the matinees to see a brilliant programme every minute of which will delight them. . . The De Luxe Orchestra, wryi its introductory music, entr’acte, and specially selected music for the story, was enjoyable to listen to, but this is always the case under such an able director as Mr L. D. Austin. Bookings are already heavy for to-dny s performances and are proceeding _ into next week, so that if-any advice ,is needed it is “hook early, otherwise you will regret it.”