ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 23444, 26 February 1938, Page 21

ENTERTAINMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “THE HILLS OF OLD WYOMING” A colourful, fast-moving, romantic portrayal of outdoor life in the West is “Hills of Old Wyoming,” which hps William Boyd in the star role of “Hopalong Cassidy”; it commences today at the Majestic Theatre. The film centres round a large reservation in Wyoming, where a crooked Government agent tries to use his Indian wards as • a screen for his sinister operations as head of a cattle-rustling gang. Cassidy with his pals, “Windy” and “Mesquite ‘Lucky’ Jenkins,” who is seen as a peace-loving rancher when the picture opens. The three together with their neighbours rise in protest, however, at the continued cattle thieving. The Government agent inflames the Indians against the white men. The threatened result is a sanguinary and reckless conflict which the hard-riding, straight-shooting and quick-thinking “Hopalong Cassidy” undertakes to avert. This is the tenth “Hopalong Cassidy” picture in which William Boyd, who created this exciting screen personage, has appeared. He is supported in his excellent performance by George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Stephen Morris and Clara Kimball Young. Miss Young, who is continuing her screen comeback, is amusing as “Ma Hutchins,” a typical hearty Western woman store keeper. Lew Ayres, Benny Baker and Eugene Pallette turn detective in “The Crime Nobody Saw,” a thrilling mystery story well spiced with comedy which begins on Saturday also. The three are playwrights who are up against a stone wall for a plot. A play must be delivered the very next day or there is a singularly ominous _ “or else” from a producer who had given them a liberal advance. Fate comes to their rescue by staging a murder right in their living room. The latest everpopular “March of Time” will also be shown and this week’s Cinesound News. SPECIAL MATINEE As “The Crime Nobody Saw” is not suitable for children and as “Hopalong Cassidy” is probably the most popular star with children today, the management has arranged for an attractive, array of short features for the matinee in conjunction with “Hills of Old Wyoming.” The second “Wild West Days,” comedy, sports thrill, cartoons and news will be shown, and these with Hopalong make up an ideal matinee programme. Plans are on view at H. and J. Smith’s or Rice’s Majestic shop, telephone 758.

THE CIVIC COMEDY AND DETECTIVE STORY EDWARD EVERETT HORTON Edward Everett Horton heads the brilliant list of fun makers in Paramount’s “Wild Money,” the brisk Paul Calico comedy which opens in a doublefeature programme at the Civic Theatre today. The story deals with Horton, a bad spender who goes berserk when he is given unlimited funds with which to effect a newspaper scoop. With a sensational kidnapping to be “scooped,” a beautiful girl to be won, and with unlimited funds at his command to do both it’s hardly any wonder that Edward Everett Horton goes slightly nuts. The girl is beautiful Louise Campbell, New York stage star who makes her screen debut in this picture. Opposition to the romance is supplied by sleepyvoiced Lynne Overman. When a band of gem thieves tangles with Dan Cupid almost anything can happen—and everything does in “She’s No Lady,” Paramount’s merry tale of life and love among gem thieves, play-boys, society women and a mysterious beauty. Beautiful Ann Dvorak and John Trent are the boy and. girl in the picture, and the cast includes Aileen Pringle, Guinn Williams and Harry Beresford.