“SILKS AND SADDLES.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6142, 28 July 1921, Page 7

“SILKS AND SADDLES.”

OPERA HOUSE TO-NIGHT

“Silks and Saddles,” the latest addition to the ranks of Australian super-feature films, is to be presented at the Opera House to-night, under the direction of E. J. and Dan Carroll. Mr. John Wells, who was a co-director with Wilfrid Lucas in the early E. J., Carroll productions, has certainly excelled himself in “Silks and Saddles,” and to assert this is to declare that this picture is superior to nine out of ten of its contemporaries. The interest of this speedy six-reeler, always keen and absorbing, is due somewhat to the suspense in which the audience is held, the plot being so admirably planned as to defy the penetration of the most experienced picture-goer. Full of passion, actioir, motives, situation, and delightfully contrasted bush and city scenery, it is seldom indeed that ‘we see a picture of such fascination and speed which culminates in a marvellously photographed race for the Sydney Cup at Rand wick, in which Miss Brownie Vernon, by permission of the stewards, rides the famouse racehorse, Kennaquhair, a dead-heat with J’oitrel. “Silks and Saddles” will be screened for three nights only. Seats may be reserved at Miller’s Corner this morning and at Everybody’s during the afternoon.