STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1025, 16 July 1930, Page 17

STRAND

“THE HOTTENTOT” COMING “Side Street,” a drama of brother love in New York, is the picture of principal interest at the Strand Theatre. The three Moore brothers, Tom, Owen and Matt, are the principal players. Various aspects of life in a big city arc depicted, and although the activities of a band of criminals form the basis of tho plot, there is no sordidness. Three brothers who take up widely differing occupations are brought into tragic conflict \yith one another. The most important item on the supporting programme is .the film of tho second Rugby test match, Splayed at Christchurch. Fear, according to psychologists, Is caused by ignorance of the thing feared, but in the case of Edward Everett Horton, in the part he plays in Warner Bros.’ picture, “The Hottentot,” coming to the Strand on Friday, the more one learns of the thing feared the higher one’s hair rises—the more one’s flesh creeps! This the comedian as Sam Harrington, fake •horseman, in the screen version of (he famous play, ludicrously proves. The thing feared in his case is the uncontrollable racehorse, Hottentot, that nobody had yet ridden. In order to appeal to the girl of his heart—played by Patsy Ruth Miller — Horton agrees to ride in the great annual steeplechase although he has never been astride a nag in his life! His decision . made—he begins to find out all sorts of new and horrifying facts about Hottentot, and the more he learns about the habits of the wild animal, the more his teeth chatter. Others in the stellar cast of “The Hottentot,” adapted by Harvey Tliew from the Mapes-Collier footlight, hit, include Edmund Breeze, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Maude Turner Gordon. Roy Del Ruth directed. - A second big attraction will be shown on the new programme in “Roadhouse Nights,” a tuneful tale of New York entertainers, starring Helen Morgan and Charles Ruggles.