AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 January 1928, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. “ Whispering Sage,” starring Buck •Jones, will be screened for the last time to-night at the Opera House. It is a tense drama of the south-west in which the popular Western ace is seen at his best in some hair-raising situations. The action centres about the love and homestead of Mercedes, a charming daughter of a Basque patriarch, who is threatened by a band of desperadoes headed by Hugh Acklin, an unscrupulous rancher with a bfind of thugs under his control. Buck, bent upon avenging the death of his brother, who has been shot under strange circumstances, rides into the Basque country, wholly in ignorance of the. critical situation. When the father of Mercedes is assassinated, Acklin figures it will be comparatively easy to switch the blame to Buck. From this moment, until the smashing climax in which Buck is vindicated, there is action in every sequence and the finish brings on a fight seldom equalled on the silver sheet. Pietorially, the release is one of the most beautiwul offerings the Western star has offered in recent months. Natalie Joyce, a little southern beauty, has the leading feminine role. Reserves at Vure’s. COSY THEATRE. Jackie Coogan has appeared before Lis millions of admirers in many guises but never in . military role as he does in his newest starring vehicle, "The Bugle 'Call,” a Mctro-Goidwyn-Mayer picture, which the Cosy Theatre will present to-night. In this gripping outdoor drama, the juvenile genius plays the part of a bugle boy stationed under his father’s command at a cavalry post on the frontier in the days of the early West. At that period it was common for very small boys to be used as buglers, and they often accompanied their regiments into action. Conscqucntly, the present generation is accorded a wonderful fascinating opportunity of studying one of these juvenile heroes as portrayed with astonishing sincerity and realism by Jackie Coogan. A very touching love story concerning the boy’s father and his second wife who suffers much embarrassment and pain before she succeeds in occupying the mother niche in Jackie’s heart, adds a tremendous human appeal to the thrills, comedy, drama and smashing action of the picture. Claire Windsor heads a particularly strong muster of supporting players, including Herbert Rawlinson, who takes the part of Jackie’s father, and Tom O’Brien, who is responsible for much of the comedy, as Sergeant Doolan. Reserves at Theatre after 6.30.