HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 17

HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS

ZANE GREY’S LATEST Nebuchadnezzer, the saddest hound in the world, adds a lot of laughs to “The Last Trail,” Fox Films version of Zane Grey’s novel starring Tom Mix and coming to the Hippodrome and Empress Theatres to-morrow. The story centres about an Arizona mining camp, where desperadoes have made stage-robbing one of the principal industries. Robert Grower has the role of a deputy sheriff who owns Nebuchadnezzer, a bloodhound that has a “nose” for tracking desperadoes.

The deputy trails the bandits, with the hound out in front tugging at the

chain. The dog scents out Kurt Morley, supposed to be one of the town’s substantial citizens, and insists that Morley is the man his master is hunting. The deputy concludes that such a reputable person as Morley could not be connected with the stage robbers, and leads the dog away.

Nebuchadnezzer is continually on the bandits’ trail and frequently lve scents out Morley. but it is not until Mix has knocked out the leader of the gang that Morley is taken into custody after the hound lias nosed him out for the tenth time.

William Davidson plays the role of Morley. Carmelita Geraghty is Nita Carrol, the feminine lead.