AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 83, 12 September 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“TEXAS TRAIL” H.opalong Cassidy and Ills pals, Lucky.-apa Windy, join the Army iu Bar amount's new Hopalong picture, “Texas Trail,” which opens Tuesday at the ‘Do Luxe Theatre. “Texas Trail," one of the most exciting films of tliis smashing series, deals with the lipalifsh-American War period, when Cassidy is commissioned by the Army to round up a huge herd of wild horses. Bustlers hear of the plan and try to. steal the horses, overpowering Hopalong and his men While they sleep. But Cassidy fights his way out of tlui spot in one of the best, scraps of his career, and joins the Army to go to Cuba after completing, liis mission. The cast includes William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Judith Allen and Alexander Cross. Tbo film was directed by Dave Sellman. “NIGHT CLUB SCANDAL” Murder and mirth are judiciously mixed in Paramount’s # now comic-mas-tery film, “Night Club Scandal”. Tins new picture, which opens Tuesday at the De Luxe Theatre, lias a cast of film favourites headed by John Barrymore including Lynne Overman, Louise Campbell, diaries Bickioru, Harvey Stephens, J. Carrol Naisli, Elizabeth Patterson and Barknve Holland. “Night Club Scandal”, presents John Barrymore as a successful physician who murders his wife and Lynne Overman and Charles .Bickford as the reporter and detective who run him down. The picture tells a fast and furious tale cf uie attempt at a “perfect crime” and how the tenacity of the sister of a falsely accused man and the intelligence of an alert reporter bring the attempt, to failure. The film was directed 1 by Ralph Murphy for Paramount.