PATEA TALKIES

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 31 July 1933, Page 2

PATEA TALKIES

. TUESDAY—" THE RAINBOW TRAIL;" : ' 1 Tossing a taunt to organised out- . la wry, stealing a beautiful girl frpm .‘under the very nose of a bandit gang, George O’Brien is said to raako everyone’s’ ideal of manhood come true iu ' the new ■ Fox v filuiisatioH of Zanc Grey’s -popular, novel, “The Rainbow Trail/” showing on Tuesday, matinee'2.ls and. night at S. - Laid in a section of the old west where corruption was as deeply intrenched as it is iu the American cities to-day, the new film, is said -to teach a much needed lesson. to members of the present generation. The one way to break up organised outlawry is to send in‘someman who is strong enoughr. to break it up. Reported to be packed' with alternating heart-throbs,' thrills, -and laughs, "The Rainbow Trail” is enacted by a notable cast which in-ad‘ dition to O ’Brien, includes Cecelia - Parker, Minna Goxubell, Roscoo- Atcs, James Kirkwood, and J. M. .Kerrigan, W. L.' Thorne, ‘Niles Welch, La ska Winters, Robert Frazer, Alice Ward, and Edward Hearn, v David Howard directed from Barry Connor’s and Philip Klein’s -adaptation of Zane Grey’s widely read novel. - WEDNESDAY—' ‘THE ROAR OP THE DRAGON”—LONG PICTURE DANCE. , Brandishing swords, fingering ancient pistols, a baud of ravishing Mongols fide out of the night' into a ter- .■- ror-strickdn town iu Manchuria. Flaring torches light a scene of panic. Chinese natives scurry to shelter. A small group of whites hastily stockade a, deserted Mandarin palace and prepare to defend themselves. Old men and women join a troop of children, dragging domestic animals aucT chef-' ished possessions io refuge iu a mis- - sionary homo. The bandits, led by a , vicious half-caste, seek as their prize a beautiful woman, a Russian emigre, who has taken shelter- with the other whites in the stockade, where a rough, '* cynical American captain has assumed leadership.. This is the. intensely,dramatic situation in ‘Roar of the Dragon, ’ the new Richard Dix film coming to the Town Hall on

Wednesday. Gwili. Andre, dazzling • Danish actress, who makes her iirsl screen appearance in the picture, ui». the mysterious, hunted Russian, noblc'woman. Tho love that springs up between her and Dix, the river-boat captain, as they.- are drawn together in ’ peril, provides the strong romance in this story of modern Manchuria.) Dancing will take place after the pictures until 2 a.m. to music by Wills' Ofches-r tra, ' - /