ENTERTAINMENIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENIS

TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES OPERA HOUSE Walt Disney’s newest feature production, “Mambi,” screens finally at the Opera House to-day. “The Avenging Rider,” starring Tim Holt, is the associate feature. Two Western Thirllers. Two Western thrillers make up the programme at the Opera House tomorrow. Bullet-streaked action, rousing western songs, and suspenseful excitement are served up in extra large portions in Columbia’s newest outdor adventure drama, “Riders of the Northwest Mounted.” Russell Hayden, hard-riding young star, plays the leading role, wh<-e the supporting cost is headed by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, noted music-makers of the south-west. Hayden, in the uniform of a Canadian Mountie, is completely convincing as he overcomes outlaw guns, treachery in high circles and overwhelming odds to get his man! In this case, the man happens to be the leader of a band of fur thieves who have been terrorising the trappers in the peaceful town of Belle River. Charles Starrett routs the rustlers in Columbia’s “The Fighting Buckaroo,” the associate feature. In addition to Starrett, who portrays an ex-Texas ranger, the cast also includes laughable, loyable Arthur “Arkansas” Hunnicutt, vivacious Kay Harris and Ernest Tuibb who is accompanied in his western ballads by Johnny Luther’s Ranch Boys.