HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 15

HIPPODROME AND EMPRESS

“THE LAST TRAIL” TO-NIGHT Concord stage coaches! Real vehicles of pioneer days in the best of condition, that survived until the present time because they were in the Yellowstone National Park along with the buffalo and elk in the. national game preserves, appear in “The Last Trail,” Tom Mix’s latest starring picture for Fox Films, coming to the Hippodrome and Empress Theatres to-night. Mix found the coaches in the stage stables at Yellow-stone while shooting scenes for “The Canyon of Light.” Especial attention had been given to the housing of the vehicles, as it was the intention to preserve them as mementoes of the days long past. When Mix found them he was already making plans to film “The Last Trail,” film version of Zane Grey’s famous novel, in which ten stage coaches race to a sensational finish in the concluding scenes. The Yellowstone stages were just what Mix wanted for his scenes in the Zane Grey story, so he opened up negotiations with the stage company. Lew Seiler, director of numerous successes, who handled the megaphone on “The Last Trail,” took great pains to extract the utmost from the many thrilling situations presented in Mr. Grey’s novel. To say that he has been successful is expressing it mildly. The stage coach race is one of the finest things that Mr. Seiler lias ever staged and it will give producers of thrills a new mark to shoot at. John Stone, noted scenario writer, is responsible for the screen story.