ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 20115, 28 February 1927, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

ALBION TO-NIGHT. RIN-TIN-TIN IN “CLASH OF THE WOLVES,” HOOT GIBSON IN “THE TEXAS STREAK,” AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK FILM. The Master Picture, “The Clash of the Wolves,” which opened at the Albion Theatre on Saturday for a run of three days, is the latest of the series of pictures that Warner Brothers have turned out with the dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, in the star role. If you liked any of the other pictures, you will be sure to like this one. And you probably will like it better than any of the others. It shows Rin-Tin-Tin as Lobo, the leader of a pack of wolves, who are driven from the forests of the high Sierras down into the cattle country by a tremendous fire, which, by the way, makes an amazingly thrilling screen spectacle. Lobo gets befriended by a young borax prospector (Charles Farrell), who takes a leaf from the book of Androcles and extracts a thorn from the beast’s paw. The story concerns the clash of the wolf’s protector with the hunters who are on the animal’s trail. June Marlowe, who played with Rin-Tin-Tin in “Tracked in the Snow Country” and “Below the Line,” again plays the heroine, and she is more charming than ever. The cast also includes young Mr Farrell, who makes a handsome hero; Heinie Conklin, Will Walling and Pat Hartigan. “The Texas Streak,” a hilarious and breezy western comedy, packed with entertainment and delicious scenes, is also a feature attraction at the Albion Theatre now. With smiling Hoot Gibson as the star, the picture is utterly devoid of anything but entertainment. It travels like a prairie fire, from the opening scene to the final fade-out, with waves and ripples of laughs coming one upon the other almost without interruption. The plot is a particularly novel one. Hoot plays tlie role of an unlucky motion picture cowboy who goes on location with a movie troupe and is stranded a long, long way from Hollywood when he loses his railroad ticket home in a dice game. Equipped with chaps, sombrero and horrendous revolvers from the studio wardrobe, he cuts a great swath in the little western town in which he finds himself, and with the assistance of his two pals, who are also stranded, he wins a name for himself as a desperate

“mal hombre” and a great two-gun man. Then he takes advantage of this spurious reputation by receiving a bounteous salary as a guard for a gang of surveyors who are being harassed in their work by neighbouring ranchers who resent the encroachment of the development company in their region. Gibson’s performance as the cowpuncher is delightful. He is given splendid assistance by “Slim” Summerville and Jack Curtis as his two palls. Blanche Mehaffey plays the feminine lead.