ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3853, 4 October 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Tim McCoy, who is America’s greatest authority on the language, signs and customs of the surviving Red Indians, is seen as a cavalry lieutenant in the troublesome days of pioneer settlement in the far West in his latest picture, “Wyoming.” This picture will be screened at the Town Hall on Friday. The new production was filmed in Wyoming on the very locales of the colourful and thrilling frontier history which is the basis of the story. More than a thousand red men appear, together with three old chiefs who fought against the whites many years ago. Dorothy Sebastian, who played opposite McCoy in “California,” plays the role of a frontier girl, daughter of a famous waggon train guide, with skill and charm. The rest of the cast has been excellently chosen. Usual prices. Saturday’s feature is a story of a young' adventurer’s doings in many lands. It is titled “Womanwise,” and features William Russell. Usual prices. The box plan for the masterpiece of the piqture art, “The King of Kings,” i 3 now open at Heath’s, bookseller. ROYAL. A fine Peter B. Kyne story, “The Rawhide Kid,” has been adapted to the screen and with Hoot Gibson, in the leading role, will be the big feature of Saturday’s programme at the Royal. Gibson, as Dennis O’Hara has quite a time getting in and out of all his ambitions by winning a novel cross-country steeplechase in which the thrills and spills are piled on in quick succession. Other pictures are “Newlyweds Mistake” (comedy), and latest British News reel. Prices 9d and 1/6. Children 3d and 6d.