STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

Douglas Fairbanks has not appeared In many pictures during the last few years, but when ho does malce ono he takes caro that there is plenty of romance and gallant fighting, and not a little love making in the plot. His latest film "The tiaucho," which is now screening at the Strand Theatre, has all 'the ingredients of a film of this type, being a romantic story with a setting in the beauty and majesty of .South America. Fairbanks lias the role of the bandit 'chief, lender of (laucho riders, who capture a city coveted by the villain of the story. A wild mountain beauty, who is attracted by the notoriety of the bandit chief, joins the expedition on tho way to the town. Another beautiful woman is brought.into the story when the saintly girl of tho captured city makes her appearance. Khe has won fame through her gentleness, and she stirs the- luvo of the rough, but gallant bandit chief. The mountain girl, jealous of the other, betrays tho bandits and they are dismissed, tho chief being captured soon afterwards. Sickness follows, and in the faithful attendance and help of the girl of the shrine comes understanding to tho madcap of the mountains, who rides oIV to recall the bandits to tho aid of their chief. Thrilling adventures with the .Gauclios fighting madly all the time, end in tho city .being captured", and the chieftain rides away with the girl of his choice. The production throbs with the gallantry of the Gauclios, quick to fight and love, and reckless in all things to the extreme. A large and well-varied supporting programme is also presented.