MAURICEVILLE TALKIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1940, Page 7

MAURICEVILLE TALKIES

SATURDAY’S PROGRAMME. One of. the boldest and most prevalent crimes of the frontier West, stage coach and mail robbery, forms the background of Paramount’s latest "Hopalong Cassidy” action drama, "Pride of the West." which will be shewn at the Mauriceville pictures on Saturday night. A pair of criminals, who pose ns respectable citizens of the pioneer town in which the action of the story takes place, make their big mistake when the.y try Io pin the blame for the robbery on "Hoppy’s" two saddlemates. "Windy Halliday" and "Lucky Jenkins.” as this brings the Bar 20 foreman into the fray against them. With lhe help of a dari»ig youngster and a beautiful girl. "Hqpalong” catches the thieves red-handed with lhe gold and clears his friends of suspicion. For the benefit of those who are not acquainted with the "March of Time" series, the management draw ’attention to the outstanding quality of these pictures; No 1 of lhe series on Saturday will deal w“n Czechoslovakia. Here is' the complete inside story of Europe’s tinderbox nation, why Hitler was so anxious for this rich prize and why Czechoslovakia resisted parting with her twenty-year-old freedom. Each month the March of Time will show the latest world events.