STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1029, 21 July 1930, Page 15

STRAND

“THE HOTTENTOT” “The Hottentot,” Warner Brothers’ latest picture, was greeted with enthusiasm at its showing at the Strand Theatre again on Saturday—a brilliant screen version of the famous stage hit of the same name. The cast is headed by Edward Everett Horton, one of the few really great comedians of the day. The feminine lead is played by Patsy Ruth Miller. Others in the all-star cast are Edmund Breese, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Maude Turner Gordon. The adaptation was made by Harvey Thew. Roy Del Ruth directed. The humour of “The Hottentot” results from the various degrees of fright suffered by one S. J. Harrington, who is presented to the girl he loves as an experienced and fearless horseman. He knows that if the state of his nerves is revealed to her, his chance of winning her goes, and he is finally forced to ride for the girl’s sake, tho fiendish race horse, Hottentot, in the great steeplechase. What happens to Harrington, before, during and after the race, creates a comedy of the first order. A second attraction is being presented at the Strand Theatre in “Roadhouse Nights,” a stirring drama of love and adventure set against a background of rum-runners and the antagonism of American newspapers. Helen Morgan and Charles Ruggles are the stars in this tense drama, in which detectives, politics, cabarets, murder, and not a little comedy alt find a place.