"THE BLACK PIRATE."

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18906, 22 January 1927, Page 8

"THE BLACK PIRATE."

A SUPERB PRODUCTION,

GRAND THEATBE, MONDAY

It approaches (bo impossible when one endeavours lo convey an impression of the atmosphere, more than the actual story, of '•Tiio Black Pirate." ' The lalo is one of those swashbuckling, colourful romances wherein Douglas Fairbanks is so supremely at homo; it is repleto with a thousand glorious exploits, gay with adventure of the approved schoolboy type, lie story filled with the most villainous buccaneers, the most gallant soldiers, wonderful *»»*.«* a particularly sensational order of fighting. The atmosphere of the picture is so vivid n„A ronlistie. that one is earned .away to «?« pfct»««q«e a, y . when these vidou. seaXis infested the seven seas and there was a surfeit of »»«" « d u £ <°J rest, followed With marvellous exactitude the spirit of the age has been captured, and with the addition of the technicolour in which the film is made, he illusion is completed. Never was there ,u in. -md bold entertainment crowdPhotoplay, and everything " „Li "hthillv feasible. On etich a ship, 13 A nsf t such particularly abandoned pir- "? the vision before of such a aC ' 1 hi v no. -aUant could possibly do T ,Ll Ih'e things Fairbanks does. It i "a" Bmplo, and to him who the e^Tv^tab!o accepted tnin o , iv » /lav's nlav. ft & U The Black iu» , , dreams mto tm; a merry tale g which opens with a realitj, a » and c \ osea ,„ accordtypical K.I/b. see roman « c fiction. anco with the tenets presentation The manner o thls »' ™'&«„ 0 f the 1 * oriearacclTraey, the scholarly settings, the his » maU ners, and cosf SnltJ len°d the pwduc on a stability which tume lend the pwa entettainme nt value, profoundly Ranees n Fairbanks bcU ers ?" th 6 t t BoWn Hood and other famous hlB work as Robin *** g {or characters. He is a , or t thing, wi h an eTlat which makes it 1 „,.<■ /(urine the season. ■>■"*> ' l£ Sfiatol Piano Company, where seats may be reserved.