THE LAST OUTLAW

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 16

THE LAST OUTLAW

GARRY COOPER’S PICTURE One of the most experienced of motion picture actors and one of the newest stars were brought together when Herbert Prior was cast as the “heavy’* in ‘The Last Outlaw,” Gary Cooper’s second Paramount starring picture. Cooper was six years old when Prior started his picture career with E>. W. Griffith at the old Fourteenth Street Biograph studio in New York. When Cooper began a couple of years ago. Prior had had many years of experience. In “The Last Outlaw,” Prior plays Bert Wagner, the crooked rancherpolitician who hires Cooper as sheriff. Betty Jewel, Jack Luden, Billy Butts and Jim Corey enact other important roles. Flash, the wonder horse, is again the star’s mount. Arthur Kosson directed. Richard Allen Gates wrote “The Last Outlaw.” According to reports of F.X. officials who have pre-viewed Johnny Hines’s latest First National picture, “White Pants Willie,” is the comedian’s fastest and funniest comedy offering to date. It is an adaption of Elmer Davis’s Liberty Magazine serial story of the same name and is declared to have been produced on a most lavish scale of comedy. Leila Hyams plays the leading feminine role opposite the comedian, and others prominent in the cast are Ruth Dwyer, Walter Long. Margaret Seddon, Henry Barrows. George Kuwu and Bozo, the educated