OPERA HOUSE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 7

OPERA HOUSE.

THE GREAT LOVE." Given the elephant and an idea, Marshall Neilan has launched something new and hilariously funny, on the screen. Anyone who doubts the director's reputation as "The Mark Twain of the Screen" need only co step into the Opera House and see his new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, "The Great Love." It's real great love — six tons of it! It ranges from hysterically funny mishaps to thrills that make one gasp. It holds one spellbound with its audacious humour. It is Neilan at his best. The story is a love triangle — and one side of, the triangle is an elephant! A young doqtor, as hroke and as without practice as new graduates usuajly are, has for his first case a circus elephant. He also has a sweet heart. Viola Dana is very charming as the young doctor's sweetheart, and Robert Agnew plays the young doctor, a comedy role he handles with consumate skiil. Miss Rebe Iiessalova, the gifted gipsy violiniste, wull make an appearance during the season. Miss Kessalova has been specially engaged to appear at Opera House and to patrons, whose cultured tastes demand ilnished art, the playing of this niusician will afford profound pleasure. She has a brilliant technique, a firm command ovcr her violin, and her repertoire includes the masters as well as popular composers of the day. This act is attractively presented. 1