ARCADIA PICTURES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 12 April 1927, Page 2

ARCADIA PICTURES

TP NIGHT—LAST TIME. "PROWLERS OF THE NIGB’I." When the pursuit of duty is contrary to the path of love, the right road to travel is hard to chose. In “Prowler’s of the Night,” the Uni-versal-Blue Streak Western., which comes to the Arcadia. Theatre Monday and Tuesday, Fred Humes faces just such a decision. As sheriff he pledged himself to fight crime and pursue those who evade justice—as a lover he told the girl of his heart he lived for het alone. When he discovered ’.hal the girls father was the man n» sought as sheriff, he was face to face with a problem which a lesser man would not have been able to cope with. This situation builds into a drama which makes “Prowlers of the Night” one of the most interesting Western dramas and one which does not depend on trick riding or uncalled for fights to speed up the action. Fred Humes, who built, up an enviable record for himself in two reel Westerns, now brandies out as a feature length Western star and “Prowlers of the Night” is his first effort in the extended form of celluloid endeavour.

Barbara Kent, Universals new feminine find, plays the leading role opposite Humes, and it is her first cinema effort. Winner of a Hollywood beauty contest. Miss Kent made one test, which revealed her capabilities and she was immedi-’ ately signed by Universal. Ernest Laemmle is responsible for the direction and the cast includes “Slim” Cole, John T. Prince Joseph Belmont and Walter Maehle

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY. 'HIE THUNDERING HERD. (ZANE GREY). “The Thundering Herd'"' will make the heart of a nation beat faster. It is action from start to finish, and there are the thrills that have never yet failed to cause the audience's hair to stand on. end. It is a spectacle of the romantic days of red men and buffalo, white hunters and plains dotted with Bleaching bones. Yet the tale is told in an intimate manner, and against the background of painted savages and stampeding buffalo is depicted a love story together with the personal adventures of a little band typical of the ill assorted ciew that roved the prairies a generation ago. Of course the picture is utter melodrama—but what of it? It is th? type of melodrama which hrs wen and retained popular approv'd. 1: i a story replete with red-blood-ed action, and it will appeal to a:l elements of every audience. The big scenes are those picturing the crazed race of the maddened buffalo; the daring rescue of Milly from beneath their very hoofs; th-, at rack of the Indians; the wild cash of the rescuing hunters and the careering covered wagons. Jack Holt and Lois Wilson play the leads in the manner made fam i‘:ai in “North Of 36.” Noah Beerv equals any previous performance as a blustering bad man, and his fel low bandits would’ make any citizen cross the street on a dark night. Special mention is merited by Raymond Hatton and Eulalie Jensen Both artists are superb in the work

assigned them, and add mczt materially to the value of the proa action.