MAJESTIC THEATRE
A.L WILSON IN, ‘‘THE PHANTOM FLYER”
TO-NIGHT’S NEW PROGRAMME.
Find if you can a more thrilling place to stage a fight than on the wing of-an aeroplane thousands -ot feet in the air..-This is just one of the many hair-raising breathtaking scenes in “The Phantom Flyer Universal’s great melodramatic. air film which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night with A 1 Wilson, filmdom’s. most daring stunt . and trick aviator,, playing the role or the. heroic air ace. This picture moves from a. flying start to a whirlwind finish, and. , through innumerable, breath-taking ■ incidents. There.-, are, few, .if any, known aviators iyho have accomplished the great .feat of. changing from one : plane l to another with an extra landing wheel tied; on, his hack and then, to climb down the'structure and put the new, wheel in place—riu- mid-air.. This one /great .spectacle is a. whole show in itself. And even this was done by A 1 wi.th. little more effort 1 , than / most of us use in' mounting a street car step. There is.horsebaok riding galore .and . some good'two-fisted fighting inserted in the ..proper . proportion to. keep the. audience oh . the .edge of their seats —expecting but not .knowing,what is duo to happen. “Oh Mabel” two-reel comedy. • “OJi Teacher’,’?,., Os-, wald 7tho; Rabbit cpjtoon, and two good Gazettes. . Box plan, at Tattersall and Bayly’s. ' , v -\ ; ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 6
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