GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1929, Page 5

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

A curiously fabricated silent motion picture, in which strikingly devised cinema glimpses of life in- the Sudan, made on the actual locale, are combined with a picturesque Hollywood melodrama, will make Its appearance at the Grand Opera House to-night. The best scenes in the picture, it should hardly surprise to learn, are those that were obviously taken on the Cooper-Schoedsack expedition. There is, for example, a- grand episode in which the Arab slave traders set fire to a. parched jungle, wherein two of the heroes are hiding, and out of It rush a terrified but fascinating looking group of simians, and what seemed to be at least 1000 maddened hippopotami, bent on. escape. It Is almost as fine a scene as the stampede of the elephants in "Chang." Then there is the call to arms of the Sudanese Camel Corps. At the same time it must be confessed that the combining of the African and the Hollywood scenes has been arranged so smoothly that it is frequently impossible to tell on which continent Individual episodes were made. The story Is so sympathetically acted by Hlchard Alien and so beautifully photographed that, combined with those animal scenes, it makes for more than the average .amount of entertainment. William Powell and CUve Brook are also in the cast The most striking portrayals, however,' are contributed by a little Negro hoy and by a tiny monkey. Box plans are now open at the Bristol and the Grand Opera House.