TOWN HALL TALKIES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3271, 25 February 1937, Page 5

TOWN HALL TALKIES

•HOPALONG CASSIDY BEIPP”

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

The main attraction at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday and Friday evenings will be Paramount s film entitled “Hopalong Cassidy Returns.” A fresh angle in Western films is presented in this picture, he “villain” of the piece being a proprietress of a saloon and gamblng hall in a Western mining town. The star artists are William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, Gail Sheridan supplying the romance opposite William Janey, Jnr., and Evelyn Brent as the proprietress of the gambling saloon. Hopalong Cassidy, along with his young brother, is summoned to Mesa Grande to bring law and order o the mining town.

Cassidy becomes aware of the fact that his chief opponent is Lilli Marsh, proprietress of the Crystal Slipper Saloon, and real head of the Crystal , Slipper gang of outlaws. Open warfare with Cassidy and others lined up against the Crystal Slipper outlaws follows. Miss Brent, he hard-boiled and mysterious orime queen of the Crystal Slipper, Jiscovers too late how strongly, she 'eels for Cassidy, for she is killed in i skirmish. flow Cassidy outwits the outlaws n restoring peace and quietness to die towns forms a most thrilling jnd‘ exciting story of the Western, variety. “Charge of the Light Brigade” “The Charge of the Light Bidjade” is the next change in proramme. Errol Flynn and Olivia de lavilland, who rose to stardom in ‘Captain Blood,” are in the leading roles, supported by a cast of 600 lorsemen and nearly 15,000 extra jjayers. The military order which ;ent the 27th Lancers to death and immortality in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava has lever been explained, though Fennyson says, “Not though the .oldiers knew someone had blunlered.” A possible explanation is aiggested in Warner Bros.’ film. The world hijs visualised the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade,” as Tennyson wrote it. The picture, however, is not wholly dependent .lpon Tennyson as a guide. There was Rudyard Kipling, who wrote nuch about British army life in InHa, The difference between Tennyson and Kiplrng wgs that Kipling actually lived in India and knew hi.s army, while; .Tennyson drew on his imagination, for details. , VJ

Much of the action of the play lakes place in Jndia, and Kipling •eaders will he familiar with many 3f the types introduced, for they ire typical of the army of that period. Patrons are advised to book their eats for night, as -early as possible.