ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 February 1929, Page 3

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TO-NIGHT— LAST TIME. “RAMONA”. Dolores Del Rio, who, it may be remembered, was a tremendous success as “Charmaine”, that fascinating character in “What Price Glory” has now come to the screen in the film version of Helen Hunt Jackson’s love story, “Ramona”. As an emotional actress, she is wonderful in a role which seems to suit her admirably. The story begins at sheep-shearing time on the ranch, and a band of Indians, headed by the handsome Alessandro, are engaged to do the shearing. The young chieftain and Ramona fall in love. All her Indian blood rises in her, and she determines to marry Alessandro. The senora resorts to every device to stop the marriage, but Felipe sets aside his love, and assists the two to elope. Alessandro goes back to his people with his young bride, and a series of disaster follow, which are in some degree softened by the birth of a baby girl to Ramona. Bandits attack the encampment, and Alessandro is slain before Ramona’s eyes, and later on her little daughter dies. Her memory lost, she becomes a wandering outcast among the Indians of the San Jacinto mountains. Meanwhile the old senora dies, and Felipe, still with love for Ramona, searched for her everywhere, meaning to bring her and her husband back to the ranch to live in happiness. For a long time he searches in vain, but at last finds Ramona in an adobe hut. He takes her back to the ranch, and slowly health and memory are restored to her. The work of Dolores Del Rio is superb. With Miss Del Rio are Warner Baxter as Alessandro and Roland Drew as Felipe.

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. “PAINTED POST.” Tom Mix Western Coming Here Soon. “Painted Post”, the screen adaptation of Harry Sinclair Drago’s thrilling sto’ y in which Tom Mix is starred and which will have an early showing at the Arcadia Theatre, is one of the finest stories in which the Western star has ;,ppeared Drago’s story takes its name from the town of Painted Post, a sleepy little hamlet perched on the edge of the Sierra Mb! re mountain range. To all appearances the town is taking a Rip Van Winkle sleep. However, the mask of respectability is rudely torn aside when Mix, as sheriff, uncovers a plot seething with hate, greed and duplicity. Circumstances throw Mix into the centre of this mass and the manner in which he restores law and order is sufficiently interesting to furnish all the thrills one could ask. The cast includes Natalie Kingston, Al St. John and Fred Gamble.