ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 23 April 1927, Page 3

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!

BLACK CYCLONE

Rex, who acquitted himself so nobly in “The Kink of Wild Horses last year, is again to be seen on the screen. Hal Roach, producer cf that film sensation and the proud owner of the wild horse he saved from an outlaw’s death, tamed, trained and made a motion picture star of. has written “Black Cyclone' to fit the marvellous talents of the horse. It is a Master Picture and will l>e the feature attraction at the Arcadia Theatre on Fndav and Saturday. iw-‘£ la^ k C y clone ” is a story of the Wile Lands, where herds of wild horses roam the hills and plains.

Rex is first seen as a motherless colt who is driven out of the herd of the Killer, a hideously-spotted and fiendishly tempered stallion who has .‘lever been vanquished :n battle. When Rex reaches full growth he is a magnificent creature and seeks and wins a mate. She is one day eaptiu-d by tne Killer, who defeats Rex in battle.

A natural enemy of Rex—kin-/ of all wild horses--is man, but Rex was to know the worth of a man's friendship. Hell’s Hole quicksands are about to claim him as another victim when he is saved by a cow-

has been forced to h ’de in the hills to avoid the vengeance of ’ bad man who fi, out for Jim's lif 3 L-eeause he was the lucky man m win Jane Lo.gar.'i love. Rex repav.s Ins debt to the cowboy by killing a cougar that was about to. spring v .i

the man while h : slept. The big climax comes when the bad man, in pursuit rf Jane, shoots •Tun s horse from under him. Seeing ■ h|s man’s predicament, Rex offers his broad, bare back, which Jim had

| several times tried disastrously to moimt. But now Rex was docile’ and willing to bear this burden. Like the wind he swoops across the sagebrush plain—no horse in the world could have kept ahead of that demon that black cyclone! Then, when b sees Jim winning in his hand-to-hand fight with the bad' man, R ex rushes off to beat off the Killer, who 1 as found Lady and come to claim her. For the first time in his mean lire, the Killer is defeated!

MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

‘THE SILENT RTDER

HOOT GIBSON

Someone once said, “The proof of the pudding is In the eating." If that be so the best proof of a moving picture western is how it is received m its own setting- the cow country of the great open 3 pac-

Whenever a Universal-Jewel pro- ; duction starring Hoot Gibsen is’advertised to appear iin one of the smaller towns of Texas, Arizona or iNew Mexico, it is a signal for an almost universal turn-out of the populace.

; Cowpjnchers wh» hav® grown, gray doing the things which Hoot enacts on the silver screen are his i stain-chest supporters. They write to him praising his horsemanship and acting ability. They take their wives and children to see the picture. He is their favourite actor.— one they appreciate and understand

Gibson in turn, always mingles with these people, his people, when ever he can sneak away from the bustle of the studio for a short vacation. He talks with them and gets their outlcpk on life and as a result his portrayals of the true westerner get better with each picture. His latest Uni versa!-Jewel stai-

ring- vehicle “The Silent Rider” from the magazine story “The Red Headed Husband.” by Katherine Newlin Burt, will be shown at Arcadia Theatre Monday and Tuesday A 1 strong cast of supporting players enoluding Blanche Mehaffey appear with Gibson in “The Silenc Rider”