EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 273, 8 February 1928, Page 15

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TWO BIG PICTURES In a plane travelling at a breathtaking clip through the clouds, A 1 Wilson, the screen’s greatest stunt and trick*aviator, performs the most thrilling feat of his flying career in “Sky High Saunders,” a Universal Western air film that opened at the Empire Theatre last night. From the opening shot, which finds a gang of crooks using an airplane fw their nefarious

smuggling operations to the final fadeout, with the girl, of course, in the arms of the flying ace. “55 ky High Saunders” is a breath - taking, hair - raising, milea - minute thriller through the full five reels. Harry Carey, that peer of ail ■Western stars who

not only knows how to ride a horse and shoot a gun, but can stir the human emotions by fine, inspired acting, is appearing in Beyond the Border," which is also being screened at the Empire Theatre. One of the strangest movie actors to visit Los Angeles was a huge hairylegged tarantula, which was recruited from ’his desert haunts of Arizona to play an important role in "Womanwise.” The director of the film relegated the task of directing the efforts of the tarantula to Duke Kananamoku, the famed Hawaiian swimmer, who claims to be more or less an authority in tarantulas. The bite of the tarantula is deadly, and the leading lady, June Collyer, is not very keen on working with the giant insect.