ENTERTAINMENT

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3944, 18 May 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT

TOWN HALL. Rex is perhaps the only star in ihe film world who has never been nr a picture that was less than a masterpiece—that was unworthy of his talents. And the greatest of these is said to be “The Devil Horse,” at the Town Hall theatre to-night, where audience may thrill anew to the intelligence and personality of Hal Roach’s marvelous wild horse actor, and to the story, which Jins been produced by Mr. Roach on a lavish and spectacular scale. “The Devil Horse,” is the name given by the Indians to a. huge black stallion that lives in the hills and makes war on the redinau. The ■many tales told of his deeds have endowed him with a supernatural power, and Medicine Men pray to iheir gods for deliverance from the slaying steed. The story is of the early (lays West —of the building of a gtreat empire—of furious clashes between blue-clad cavalrymen and painted Indian warriors fighting bitterly against the inroads of the whites—of the love of an army ’Cout for his commander’s daughter —and of the demon-like wild horse and :the important part he played m the great drama built up from these elements. With “Flaming Fathers,” a Max Davidson comedy and two late News reels at usual prices.

On Monday the Australian master production “Tall Timbers,” will bt screened. This is a typical “Aussie” story filmed in the gum tree country outback in Queensland. Usual prices. A new type of chapter play Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tamm the Mighty,” will commence next Wednesday.