OPERA HOUSE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17168, 26 March 1927, Page 5

OPERA HOUSE.

"BLACK CYCLONE" AND "THE I SPLENDID CRIME." Horses, men, mouniain lions, | bears and wolves pile up thrill on thrill in "Black Cyclone," a Master Picture, which was shown yesterday at the above Theatre. "Black Cyclon'e" leaves a deep impression and a sense of having seen something almost miraculous, for it is difficult for a mere spectator to understand how any director or trainer coukl get a horse to register a personality — to woo his lady. to nose around' in the herd and drive out undesirahle horses, to plunge into battle, to try to make Man understand his horse talk1 — and countless other suhleties we had thought it only given to human beings to register. The acting, alone, in "The SplenI did Crime," the new Paramount pic- • ture now playing on the same programme is sufficient to lift this film out of the mediocre class. "Which should occasion little wondcr, inasmuch as "William de Millv, who wrote and directed the story, has assembled a talented casl. from Bebe Daniels, the slar. down the | most unimuoriant "cxLru."