PATEA TOWN HALL TALKIES

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 15 April 1932, Page 2

PATEA TOWN HALL TALKIES

TO-NIGHT— ‘ ‘ DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE.” Joan Crawford will be seen in “Dance, Fools, Dance,” to-night (Friday). Her last picture in Patea was ‘ ‘ Within the Law. ’ ’ In her latest picture she has an entirely different role, that of a young girl who with her boy is brought up against some of life’s greatest problems. An interesting story tells how they come through. The supports include a Stan Laurel and Sam Hardy comedy, “Our Wife,” a regular roar right through; also a song picture and Mctrotonc News.

SATURDAY AT 2.1 a AND B—‘LASCA OF THE RIO GRANDE.’

‘Lasca of the Rio Grande,’ Universal’s straight-shooting, Spanish-flavour-ed romance of the Mexican border, has Loo Carillo, John Mack Brown, Dorothy Burgess, and Slim Summerville in its principal roles. Based upon the Frank Desprcz poem, “Lasca,” the story concerns a :dark-eyed senorita of the dance-halls,. a tenderly murderous half-breed cattle owner who likes his women beautiful, and a handsome Texas Ranger in love. The picture is packed to the brim with hard riding, bellowing guns, lilting Spanish melodics, and romantic scenes, and is a photographic classic., according to reports. There is a thrilling cattle stampede, a ( rousing gun fight between the half-breed’s noue-too-earcful sharpshooters, and the Rangers, and some of the season’s choicest comedy, furnished by Slim Summerville and Frank Campeau. Loo Carillo, suave star of the stage and screen, appears an ideal Jose Santa Cruz, Lasca’s half Portuguese, half Indian admirer, and Doro-

thy Burgess, sensation of “In Old Arizona,” and a host of hits, is Lasca. The erstwhile All-American football star and featured player of ‘Coquette’ ‘Billy the Kid,’ Montana Moon,’ and ‘Our Dancing Daughters,’ John Mack Brown, is seen as the strapping Texas Ranger.