THROWN FROM HORSE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 7

THROWN FROM HORSE

Dominion Special Service.

Palmerston North, January 24 George Peters, aged 21 years, had his leg bafily cut and the muscles torni away when ii horse he was riding threw him late this afternoon. The accident t place on the road outside Mr. bell Camp bell’s property atKauwhata. Appare another horse galloping up behind I eter. and the sudden appearance of a motor car frightened the horse, wh ch reared throwing its rider heavily to the ground.

MAJESTIC THEATRE. For sheer unadulterated mirth it would be very hard to equal and practically impossible to beat “Welcome Danger,” Harold Lloyd’s first all-talking comedy, which | commenced screening at the Majestic Theatre yesterday. It was to hear the shouts, chuckles and roars of spontaneous laughter which greeted, this opus at the crowded session lust night. The bespectacled comed.ian has always been famous for the crowded action in his productions, and though an all-talking picture it is one of the fastest moving, as well probably the most amusing comedy the star has made. The laughs came early, and grew in volume as the plot progressed until at the end of nearly two crowded hours there were many aching sides in that crowded house. Harold is the possessor of a splendid voice and Is admirably assisted by a cast including Barbara Kent as the heroine, Billie Lee, Noan Young as Patrick Clancy, a stalwart young constable, Charles Middleton and William Walling. Lloyd takes the role of Harold Bledsoe, a youthful botanist travelling to San Francisco, where his father as chief of police had ruled with an Iron hand. Since his death, however, the lawless element in the city’s Chinatown have regained their power, and young Harold has been sent for to put down the criminals. Once there he decides to become a fingerprint specialist, and in doing so turns the police headquarters into a bear garden. Then he sets out to rescue Dr. Gow. a famous Chinese doctor who has been kidnapped by “The Dragon” and , his gang, and with the aid of Clancy breaks into the gang’s headquarters. Once there, what he doesn’t do, and what doesn’t happen to him is not worth mentioning. Thrills alternate with laughs, until one wonders what can possibly happen next, until the police arrive and arrest everyone but the Dragon. Back at the station Harold accuses Thorne, a prominent citizen of being the Dragon and is-arrested as a lunatic, but escapes and follows Thorne to his house. Once there thrills and laughs begin again as Harold successfully battles with a giant negro and finallv forces Thorne to confess where he has hidden Dr. Gow. and as he brings out the doctor the police arrive, and Harold is at once transformed from lunatic to hero, and all ends serenely. Harold was one of the most amusing of comedians in the days of the silent film, and now in his first talkie he outstrips them all in this most hilarious of films. The supports are an interesting Fox Movietone News, and a sound film of the 1929 Armistice Day in London.

Mr. Clement May, teacher in the art of public-speaking and dramatic interpretation, will resume tuition at his studio, the Bristol Building, Lambton Quay, on Monday next. Intending pupils are requested to make early application. It is Mr. May’s intentipn to form special dramatic classes for early production In Wellington. \