ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1926, Page 12

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE OPERA HOUSE. "WILD HORSE MESA—TO-NIGHT. In Zane Grey’s action filled romance of wild horse hunting in Arizona, Billie Dove. Jack Holt, Noah Beery and Douglas Fairbanks, junr., are the featured players. The picture is from his latest book. “Wild Horse Mesa,” and will be shown for a three night season at the Opera House commencing this evening. The rugged and magnificent wilderness backgrounds are not the least of the photoplay’s worth-while features. All of the exteriors were photographed at,. Red Lake, Arizona, where was found an almost unbelievable duplicate of “The Wild Horse Mesa”— the actual locale of the story—with thosuands of wild horses inhabitating the place. “Wild Horse Mesa” represents one of Zane Grey’s best works and in bringing it to the screen Paramount have certainly made a fine picture. A full supporting programme is showing and the musical accompaniments will be in the hands of Mr. Syd. H. Bernard and the Opera House orcestra. Seats may be reserved at Collier’s. EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. COLLEEN MOORE’S “ELLA CINDERS” Everybody’s favourite comedy star scores an unqualified success in her latest comedy-drama of the kitchen, a beauty contest and the movies. For one thing, her performance demonstrated beyond cavil t-hat Miss Moore is oneof the most versatile and Winsome personalities of the screen to-day. Whether she be in satins or calicos—and for a good section of this picture she is in calicos—she is appealing to the tenth degree. In the story Ella is the slavey in the Cinders household, and how she gets away from the environment of her stepmother and stepsisters, falls in love with an iceman, wins a beauty contest and “crashes the gate” to success in the movies furnishes a delightful entertainment in the only manner that is Colleen Moore’s. Lloyd Hughes, as Waite Lifter, who trains for football by delivering ice, makes an admirable leading man. Excellent support is also given the star by Vera Lewis, Doris Baker, Emily Gerdes, Mike Donlin, Jed Prouty, Jack Duffy, Harry Allen and D’Arcy Corrigan. "Ella Cinders” is splendidly supported and Everybody’s orchestra besides accompanying this delightful picture contribute a novel en'tr-acte “Just a Cottage Small,” a new novel fox trot, the orchestral arrangement by Mr. Chas. H. Fox.

THE PEOPLE’S THEATRE. RIX-TIN TIN’S VERY LATEST. At The People’s theatre to-night for a short season of two nights only Master Pictures present “Below the Liue,” the latest production starring Rin Tin Tin, the wonder dog. It is a story of a snarling vicious dog made loyal and fine through the tenderness of a village boy who loves him. In this picture “the wonder dog” moves from the frigid backgrounds of “Where the North Begins” and “Tracked in the Snow Country” to a Southern locale, where dangerous crocodiles lie in the swampy slime and bloodhounds are used to track fugitives from justice. The picture is an adaptation by Charles A. Logue of ■his own story. John Harron appears ns t-lip boy whose love for the dog is the central'theme of the story, and June Marlowe as the girl whose love for the boy awake a response that finally eclipses even his love for the dog. Others in the cast are Pat Hartigan, Charles Conklin Edith Yorke, and Tavlor Dunean. “Below the Line” is splendidly supported by Pa the Gazette. Nature Study and comedy.