ENTERTAINMENTS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4713, 18 June 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TO-NIGHT. THE COVERED WAGON. The course of true love ran any* thing bitt smoothly in the old pioneer days, judging from “The Covered W (gon,” which will be screened at the Gaiety Theatre to-night. Will Banion, hero of the story, is under a cloud because Sam Woodhull, who was with him in the army during the war with Mexico, accuses him to the wagon train people of theft. The great wagon train of 1848 sets out for Oregon. Molly Wingate, the heroine, is loved by both Woodhull and Banion. She favours Banion. but will not wed a man under a cloud. But during the journey Banion saves her life several times, and finally is enabled to prove his innocence. The trip is fraught with great peril. The Indian attacks, the fording of rivers, and prairie fires add to the terrors of the geat overland journey. But there is fun as well—the great buffalo hunt supplies sport and food. These marvellous scene., are all contained in this epic drama of the time when the west was still unconquered. Lois Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Hale, Ernest Turret ce. Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle, etc., are in the cast.