NEW OPERA HOUSE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19949, 9 June 1930, Page 7

NEW OPERA HOUSE.

"TINS HOTTENTOT," A COMEDY. Humour in a novel setting is the keynote of "The Hottentot." A packed Now Opera House on Saturday evening was entertained in s> oleon, wholesome way by a collection of players who had thoroughly identified thornselves with their parts. . A loose rein is given to farce in "The Hottentot." The hero is a poor, Belf-con-ioious "man in the street." He is deposited among a number of people whose creation ts obviously the work of a "smart set" :novelist. Their perfection cdntrasts with ms mediocrity, and he has the sympathy oI the audience at once. For a redeeming: ho has • sense of humour, and by this quality he defeats circumstance, bo that ne becomes'& real hero. . . Edward Evefett Horton, a past favourite of the Aluorlcan stage, plays the leading part; in the picture. When he arriveß at a houseparty, and is mistaken lor a famous steeplechase rider, he is placed in an »*kwar<l Potion, for fie is mortally afraid of borsos. The girt he loves requests him to r'?e a horse, aptly named Hottentot. It is a wioked horse. Thus Horton's riding of it 1; **«»*. More talking pictures of the typo of "The Hottentot" will be welcomed.