AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. ■THE LAST T'RATL ” TO-NIGHT. /hi ic Grey, noted Western author, was keenly interested when informed hy Kox Films executives that Tom Alix would lie starred in 11 The hast Trail,” Grey's stripping drama of the ’West, coming to the Princess Theatre tonight. Grey, who has a summer home :| t Catalina Island, near San Pedro. Cal., is an old friend of the celebrated Western ace. Upon the occasion of week-end trips to Catalina, Alix frequently visits the author. “l’v, always had an idea that this particular story was made to order for Tom.” v aid Grey, "although I am not (on scions of having him directly in mind when writing the yarn. Hut Tom is s i essentially a he-man, so positively typical of the real Westerner, that I was not at all surprised to find that my own conception of Tom Dane quite fitted Air Alix.” Mix, Air Grey, point ed out, is only the host example of the Westerner of other days. Inn in the modernized version he is the very spirit of the West. "Some novelists write of imaginary Westerners, or men o! the West as they would like to have them,” said Atr Grey. “ hut here in California, in the heart of the motion picture colony, you have the finest living example of the true -on of the West it has ever been my pleasure to meet. Tom .Mix is not only a Western actor. Tie is the soul of the West. When he speaks, the West speaks;

when he is silent, it is the silence of the AVest. A great novel could, and should he written around this man of the great outdoors.” In “ The Last Trail ” with Alix are Carmelita Geraghly. Robert Brower, Frank Heal. “.Tony the Giant,” William Davidson, and others. Lew Seiler directed tile production. A topical, scenic and comedy will complete the display. On Friday next Rin Tin Tin in 11 A Hero of the Big Snows.”