“UNDER A TEXAS MOON”

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1931, Page 9

“UNDER A TEXAS MOON”

AT KAPONGA AND OPUNAKE.

Residents of Kaponga and Opunake can look forward to something particularly enjoyable this week, when "Under a Texas Moon,” Warner Bros, and Vitaphone’s latest triumph of the talkies, a talking, singing outdoor picture in technicolour, is to be screened in these districts, opening at Everybody’s, Kaponga, to-morrow, arid continuing at the New Pictures, Opunake, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “Under a Texas Moon” is an adaptation of Stewart Edward White's “Two Gun Man.” It recounts the gay adventures and philanderings of a young and dashing, Don Juan, a gallivanting, ne’er-do-well, two-guh man who accompanied by two guitar-strumming satellites, causes, ructions in the hearts of numerous senoritas, corrals -stolen cattle and brings the thieves to task, all with a captivating whimsicality that makes his amazing prowess delightful, even though on more serious reflection one realises its impossibility. Frank Fay takds.. the leading role, and his theme song, “Under a Texas Moon,” accompanied by a guitar duo, will leave a •haunting memory. The supporting cast is a powerful one. A feature of the picture is its beautiful natural colouring, showing the picturesque beauty of Old Mexico, with the desert, mountain, hacienda, herds of stampeding cattle, cowboys, robbers, etc. The brilliantly-garb-ed’Mexicans and Indiaps, with cliayming senoritas, all combine to' make a picture of indescribable loveliness and charm.