HIPPODROME

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 14

HIPPODROME

BIG WESTERN PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT

“The Pioneer Scout,’ a new style Western thriller, which will be shown to-night at the Hippodrome Theatre, stars the popular actor, Fred Thompson, in a picture which sets aside for all times any doubt as to his title as the leader of all Western stars. ‘The Pioneer Scout” tells of the scouts on the western plains in the middle of last century who guided the wagon trains across unknown country, and the opposition they had in the desperadoes and outlaws. One of the early scenes in the story shows Handy Anderson in a rocky hideout, viewing the approach of a wagon train and informing his lieutenants it is big for an attack. Anderson is a one-handed burly, who uses a sharpened hook on the stump of his arm'. He reappears in town just as another small wagon train arrives, and Mary Baxter alights from her father’s wagon. He is smitten, and tries to make an impression, but Fred, shoeing his horse, Silver King, catches her eye. Later he warns Mary’s father to hold his train, and join a larger one to avoid attack in the foothills. Harry Carey’s latest story, “The Man From Red Gulch,” will also be shown, a wonder picture of California in the making.