GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 12

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

A full house again rocked with merriment at the interventions of Uncle Henry, or was tense in the grip of the dynamic reality of the acting of Mr. Guy Bates Post as "The Bad Man," the Mexican bandit, whose wit cuts the snarled-up knot a perverse fate has woven round the lives of two men and a woman. Whether as the callous killer of objectionable folk, or as the generous friend, anxious to pay a debt to the full, Mr. Post gave a striking portrayal.of the mingled nobility, humour, and latent savagery of -the Mexican of Spanish blood./ The Mexicans and cactus of the. "painted desert" form a colourful, if incongruous getting, for the settlement of the social problem, which Lopez, the bandit, effects in anything but conventional manner. "The Bad Man" will be presented again to-night. Guy Bates Post will be seen for the first time in this city next Saturday in the popular success, "The Green Goddess," a thrilling drama of East and West, from the pen of the late William Archer, for many years the dean of London critics. "The Green Goddess" is described as a "tale of adventure- told in a civilised manner by a civilised man," and it includes all the thrills that the most romanticallyminded people could wish to have. Briefly, the plot concerns three aviators (one of whom is a very charming Englishwo; man), who are compelled to make a landing in the wild territory of Rukh. The story is full of exciting situations, and an Oriental atmosphere dominates the gorgeously spectacular drama.