GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 November 1931, Page 2

GRAND THEATRE

WEDNESDAY

Again the virile, fighting men who battled their way into the unknown wilderness of the'West to spread new. frontiers for a growing nation are seen in a,ll their splendour and .spectacular daring in Paramount's thrilling production of Zane Grey's memora^ble saga, "Fighting Caravans," which will. be screened on Wednesday at the .Grand Theatre. Woven into "Fighting Caravans" is an intriguing love story. Gary Cooper, a scout for a typical migrating carj avan, falls in "love with a . helpless | girl venturer, who, orphaned on the journey tries to carry on with the J wagon and horses left her by her I -father. Her difficulties interest the ne'er-do-well scout, but his easy-go-ing manner repulses the intense and I serious young girl. As danger fol- \ lows danger and hardship piles on hardship, however, she comes to see the real worth of the man whose heart she has won, and, by the time the caravan has reaehed its destination, the romance is full flowered. Here also are seen those horrors of "The Covered Wagon," Ernest Torrence and' Tully Marshall, as fthe same characters, fifteen years older, that they portrayed in the former epic. Lily Damiita, has the leading feminine role opposite Cooper. Eugene Pallette is in the cast, and more than forty-five well-known actors are seen in important parts.