"THE TEXANS" SEASON.
OPEiRA HiOUSE SOREENING. Texas in the turbulent days following the war between the States forms the exciting background of "The Texans," which will have its first showing at the Hawera Opera House to-day. With Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott and May Robson heading a huge cast, the picture tells of the South's struggle to attain self-rule and find a new way of life after the ravages of the war. Miss Bennett, playing a fire-eating Dixie belle who refuses to admit that the "great cause" is lost, and Scott, a returning soldier who advises a policy of conciliation, symbolises the dilemma of the entire South during this period. Although goaded by the corrupt carpet-baggers and scalawags who took over the government and ran it for their own profit, wise Southerners guided the destiny of the State with patience. Scott's triumph over Miss Bennett and their decision to march their cattle to the Kansas market a thousand miles away mirrors the South's decision to join the rest of the. Union in building a vast empire in the great south-west.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1938, Page 10
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