CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 15

CIVIC

MUSIC AND PICTURES Sue Carol, portraying the leadingfeminine role in “The Lone Star Ranger,” Fox Movietone all-talking border romance, is one of the beauties of the screen. She is co-featured with George O’Brien, who enacts the character of a Texas Ranger. O’Brien and Miss Carol furnish the love interest in this Zane Grey story of the West. Walter McGrail, Lee Shumway, Russell Simpson, Warren Hymer, Elizabeth Patterson, Caroline Rankin head the large suporting cast. A. F. Erickson directed the picture, which is now at the Civic Theatre. The story concerns the loneliness, the power and strength of one man, who, to atone for his past and regain his freedom, joins the Texas Rangers and undertakes the capture of a dangerous band of cattle thieves. When his task is partly finished, he discovers the girl he loves is the niece of the ringleader. He braves many dangers .before he disrupts the band, gains a pardon for the girl's uncle, and wins her hand. The Civic’s programme also includes a number of enjoyable musical selections by Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra and by Fred Scholl on the grand organ. Outstanding among the items on the supporting programme is the talkie film describing the arrival of the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and Lad-y Bledisloe, in Wellington recently. The remainder of the programme included two sound gazettes, with a budget of world events, a talking comedy. “Turkey for Two,” and a "Krazv Kat" cartoon.