ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. THE THUNDERING HERD. “The Thundering Herd,” which is to be shown to-night, is a vigorous mixture of entertainment and instruction, of history and fiction. It has tremendous dramatic value, yet the thrilling story it narrates, the adventures and incidents it unfolds, and the scenes it pictures- are based upon facts that are historically true. The photoplay was adapted fr’om the absorbing novel of* the same name by Zane Grey, and centres around the glamorous and colourful days of 1876. Instead of viewing a plain dotted with cities, ranches, and cement roads, the film shows us the west as it was fifty years-ago—a vast wilderness, ranged by great herds of buffalo, over-ruri by wolves, bears, and mountain lions, and inhabited by fierce, nomadic Indians. Interwoven with the theme of the story, which concerns the long drive that was begun in ’76 to buffalo fields of Wyoming and Montana, is a virile romance, the principals of which are Jack Holt and Lois Wilson. The development of his love affair, which iS hindered by Miss .Wilson's, guardian, Noah Beery, and the sufferings and privations of the early settlers provide enough action, drama, and suspense for half a- dozen photoplays. The last big Indian attack upon the whites and the exciting stampede of a vast herd of buffaloi furnish .two of the many dynamic scenes for this epic picture.