"THE HOTTENTOT."

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17808, 6 July 1923, Page 14

"THE HOTTENTOT."

A REMARKABLE SUPERFEATURE LIBERTY THEATRE TO-MORROW. A thoroughly entertaining programme of pictures will be shown at the Liberty Theatre to-morrow, where the feature fiim will be a First National production, "The Hottentot." Ab a laugh-maker the picture is a record-breaker. It is even funnier than the stage play of the same name, and that ia saying a lot. William Collier and Vio-t-Ji Mapes wrote the p-ay, and then Collier starred in the vehicle 60 successfully that he played Broadway for more than a year, finally taJsing the play on tour throughout the country. Douglas Mac Lean has uhe part which Coiiier created ana has done tiie nntst bit ot comedy wor-s in his career. Aiadge Hehainy, as the pretty heroine ol tne tale, is an that cou.d be desired, while Raymond Hatton as tne eccentric butiex is to iunny tuat lies a menace, rae mama you iaugn until you're he.piess. Tne luu of tne p.ay grows out 01 a case of mistaken .cteiituy. sain Harrington is a yachtsman who has braved the is.es, laugned in the lace oi raging storms, ana uis fingers at typhoons. Jj'ear 13 unknown to him except when t-ere are horses witnin reach of him. He is deathly afraid of lioises. invited to a country home lor a house party he becomes the hero 01 a tunaway, and is mistaken by the girl he saves for a famous rider of the same name. He prompt.y fails in love with her, but hesitates to shatter her illusion as Bhe .oves hotses. He gets into end.ess trouble and finally has to ride the fiery "Hottentjt" :n a 6teepiechr.Be. The race is a siunning piece ot photography, and the piay provides soud entertainment. Madge Bellamy, recent./ starred in "Loina Doone," is at jur winio.ue best as the vivacious little sportswoman for whom Sam overcomes fear. Duiiglas MacLean, as the horse fearing yachtsman, and Raymond Hatton as Swift, tiie eccentric butler, have worked out cle\er cnaiacterisations that are good tor a laugh every time they appear on the screen. What person with an ounce of red blood in his ve:ns who does not recover a youthful thrill at a tale of a quest for hidden treasure? Th> old time thrills have been .recaptured and imprisoned for aO time on the screen by Gouverneur Atoms in Goldwyn's film version of his story, "'Yel.ow Men and Gold,' the second feature on today's programme. This abs.>rb:ng tale of adventure and conflict on an island in the South Seas partakes of the romantic fervour, lively action and picturesque colour to be found in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island." Two rival factions set out for a lonely island off which an old Span'-sh galleon, laden with treasure, was sunk. A convulsion of nature has thrown the galleon up above the water until it rests, like the skeleton of a whale, upon one of the highest points of land. About the skeleton of this old ship occurs muoh. of the action of the picture. Fight follows fight in rapid succession, each one more strenuous and thrilling than the one preceding it. It is a tale that will make spectators forget all else' until the final foot has been unreeled. Thio week's supporting programme is a good one. There is the Pathe Pictorial, Path© Gazette, and an exceptionally humorous comedy, "We'll Get You Yet." Special musio will be rendered by the Liberty Grand Orohestra, under the conductorship of |Mr ,Arthur Gordon. The box plans are now open at The Bristol Piano Company.