STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 5

STRAND THEATRE.

Douglas Fairbanks as "The Gaucho" at tho .Strand Theatre appears as an outlaw head of a band of hard-riding bandits who occupy the mysterious shrine city under tlic very nose of I lie usurper of the country. The fortunes of the hold adventurer urc effected for good and ill by'the lure of fair maidens; one a wild mountain girl, the other a saintly phi of the shrine. By the jealousy of the lorincr, the outlaw is betrayed into the dutches of the usurper and his ruthless coinhiiindante. Contaminated by the touch of a victim of "tho black difjm," the Gaucho loader is saved and healed by the shrine girl. Hut his baud has been dismissed through the treachery of a- .lieutenant, and he is imprisoned, likewise the girl of tho shrine and her padre protector. Understanding tho simple devotion of the shrine girl, the madcap iepents and rides to bring the Uauchos to the rescue of tliclr captain: The.latter digs his way "out of his cell, and, joining tho oncoming horde, rescues the padre and the shrine girl from the scaffold, stampeding a vast herd of steers which rout the forces of the usurper. The photography of Douglas Fairbanks as "The Gaucho" marks an advance In tho cinema art. Panoramic, beauty and intimate detail are handled with unusual skill by Tony G. Gaudlq. Tho scenes from tho designs of the supervising art director, Carl Oscar Borg, aro notable- for their originality as well as their majestic appeal. A splendid selection of supporting pictures is also shown.