AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1928, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. “DRUMS OF THE DESERT” —TO-NIGHT. Zaue Grey has the faculty of making fiction from fact which is one of the reasons why his stories ring so true. “ Drums of the Desert,” for instance, adapted from “ Desert Bound,” the latest Znne Grey story to come to the screen as a Paramount picture, is based on the discovery of oil under the desert lands of a Navajo Indian reservation, and the attempts of bandits to wrest it from the red men. During the filming of the production on the original locale, it was learned that the Indians plan to build a bridge spanning the river at the ferry point, where much of the original story’s action occurred. Funds for the building of this bridge were acquired through the sale of oil discovered in the desert and saved for the Indians through the efforts of a white man who played square. Warner Baxter is John Curry, friend cf the Indians, the man who plays square. Opposite him is Marietta Millner, the little European girl who makes her American screen debut in “ Drums of the Desert,” which reaches the Princess Theatre to-night. Others in the cast arc Ford Sterling Wallace MacDonald. Heinie Conklin. George Irving, Bernard Siegel and Guj Oliver. A topical, comedy and further chap tors of “ The Fire Fighters ” will also be shown. On Saturday: “Steel Preferred.” mr—mm m* -naßiwr*