AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES, HOOT GIBSON - IN “PAINTED 1 PONIES.” Hoot Gibson in coming to the theatre on Friday in v.hat promises to Iks the biggest hit of his career as a movie cow by. It is said that in “Painted Ponies,’’ directed by Reaves Eason from the story by John J. Hamlin, Hoot does so many daring stunts on the backs of bucking animals that he proves again his right to the laurels as a cowboy champion. Much of the film was made fit the .famous rodeo at Saugus, California, where cowboy prodigies in all branches of dare-deviltry are seen in camera shots that have created wide continent for their unusual thrills. Gibson, himself, who plays the role of Buckv Simms, champion .cowboy of the north, dropping into Toptown to compete for the southern trophy does some hair raising steer riding of his own. Pretty Ethlyne Clair, who appeared with Gibson in “A Hero on Horseback,” will again favour the silent sheet with her tinusual good looks, for she is the little girl who runs the merry-go-round that gave tire story its name, “Painted Ponies.” In addition to giving the story its name the painted steeds of • thee carousel supply much Of the fun in the picture. The tough riders of the plains discover that riding oil a ifierry-go-round is no sport for elderly ladies when they take a whirl oil the fun wheel at the rate of thirty miles an hour for about thirty seconds. As the story starts, Bucky gets into trouble at about the same time ho gets into town, for it is no small crime in Toptown for any stranger to fall in love with the pretty gal—not while Pinto Pete, the bully, lives, breathes and shoots fair to middlin’. The yarn sounds as if it ought to be as good a,s anything Hoot ever did. Those who have seen previews state that it is bettor khan that. In addition to Ethlyne Clair, the supporting east includes a number of well-known people including "William Dunn, “Slim” Summerville and Chas S'ellou. The supports are a Topical, further chapters of “The Fire Fighters” (.serial) and a good comedy. On Saturday Louise Fazenda and Jacqueline Logan in “Footloose "Widows.”