AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS. ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17731, 3 December 1919, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS. ETC.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE,

"The Rainbow Trail," a stirring sequel to the great screen success "Riders of the Purple Sage," which has attracted large audiences to Everybody's Theatre, will be screened to-night for the last time. "The Rainbow Trail" takes up the fortunes of Lassiter, Jane Whitersteen and the girl, Fay Larkin, years after they have been locked up in a lost canyon. Not only does Mr Farnum again pourtray the role of Lassiter, the two-gun man and terror of the Utah border, but he also takes the part of Shefford, a two-fisted fighting man who goes to the rescue of these imprisoned people. This dual role gives Mr Farnum some of the most splendid opportunities of his screen career, and he rises to his opportunities like the sterling actor that he is. A feature of "The Rainbow Trail" is its magnificent scenic effects; in fact, in. "The Rainbow Trail" is shown the grandest scenery in the world. Two hundred miles of wind-torn rock, all smooth and bare, without a single straight line —canyons, cavos, bridges. This is the Grand Canyon of, Arizona, where William Farnum and his company spent a week. Other scenes show the weird, mysterious Painted Desert; others take the spectators into the forgotten civilisation of the Aztec cliff-dwellers. Again, the picture shifts to that colourful, picturesque home of a doomed race— the Navajo Reservation. The scenery of this production is a liberal education, in "itself. To-morrow J. C. Williamson films will present Fred Niblo in "Officer 666," the famous stage success.