AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, 6 October 1926, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. Due to its spectacular appeal and melodramatic strength, combined with skilled direction and good acting by the entire cast, “Wild Horse Mesa,’’ a Zane Grey story, registers as excellent entertainment, superior in every way to the regulation Westerner The yarn pivots pn the idea of round-ing-up the wild herd and selling its members to commission men, the means employed being a barbed wire corral trap. The hero objects to this as brutal, because he knows at least half the horses will be killed in the stampede. He wins his point, but several horse thieves appear who are not so tender-hearted, and the big punch comes when the drive starts and Jack Holt heads off the animals’ mad rush at the risk of his life. Holt’s romance with Sue Melberne provides the sentimental seasoning; there are a. number of lively fights, including the revenge of an Indian chief, who kills off the horse-thieving trio and saves the heroine. Jack Holt, as the hero, with 'NoaJi Beery playing one of his effective ruffian roles and Billie Dove, as heroine, carry off the dramatic honours. Reserves at Henderson's. COSY DE LUXE. San Francisco and vicinity in 1856 —the days when the discovery of gold in the hills attracted all manner 75! men from the four corners of the earth —the days when might was right anti the quickest on the “draw’’ lived the longest. Such is the scene of “Flower of Night,’’ a Paramount picture, starring Pola Negri, which opened yesterday at the Cosy Theatre. Pola as Carlota Villalon, descendant of a Royal Spanish family, falls in love with a young mine superintendent. The Flor de Noche mine had been wrested from Cariota’s father by dishonest Americans and now one of them, thinking that by so doing he will win the girl, offers to help her regain possession of it. The young superintendent, however, refuses to be ousted. There is a fight, during which the girl realises the danger the man she loves is in, forgets all about getting the mine back for herself and goes to his aid. The scenes that follow are among the most thrilling the screen has ever seen. Vigilantes arrive on the scene and straighten things out for all concerned. Reserves at Henderson’s.