PRINCE EDWARD
“THE BAT” For gasp-provoking action, spinetingling suspense, clean comedy and tender love scenes, “The Bat, famous mystery picture to be shown to-night at the Prince Edward Theatre, is in a ■class by itself. Roland West, genius of mystery melodrama, has taken the Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood stage success and made it into what critics pronounce the year’s biggest surprise picture.” Audiences are kept on
the edge of their seats from the opening scenes to the startling finish, when the mask is torn from “The Bat" and he is disclosed as one of the least suspected characters. The weird settings a n d unsurpassed photography in “The Bat” make it one of the artistic as well as outstanding dra-
matic triumphs of the last ten years. Although the plot of the stage play has been followed, new complications have been introduced to baffle e\en the hundreds of thousands who saw the SP The n all-star cast lias eminent players «nch as Jewel Carmen. Jack Pickford Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, Tullio Carminati. Robert McKim. Eddie Gribbon. Andre de Beranser, T re Shu mwav, Charles Herz.n&er and Sojin. famous portrayer of Oriental types.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 95, 13 July 1927, Page 15
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194PRINCE EDWARD Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 95, 13 July 1927, Page 15
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