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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1026, 17 July 1930, Page 16

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NEW PICTURES TOMORROW And now comes the first all-talking picture to feature a horse as the “menace.” This film is Warner Bros.’ alltalking Vitaphone production, “The Hottentot.” which comes to the Strand Theatre tomorrow. In this uproarious screen comedy, Hottentot, the racer that no one can ride, enacts the “villain.” And Hottentot is said to be more villainous than any of the human “heavies” of the screen. In direct contrast to the wild and uncontrollable Hottentot, is tho meek characterisation of Edward Everett Horton, who heads the all-star cast as a supposedly expert horseman. The major part of the comedy in “The Hottentot” revolves about Horton’s timidity on the suDject of horses. He poses as a famous steeplechase rider and is forced to struggle into the Hottentot’s saddle and ride the terrific beast in the race, fearing that he is to win or lose in the race of love, according to results. Adapted for Vitaphone from the well-known stage success of the same name, “The Hottentot” also has in its cast Patsy Ruth Miller, Edmund Breese, Edward Earle, Stanley Taylor, Otto Hoffman, Douglas Gerrard and Maudo Turner Gordon. Roy Del Ruth directed. Clayton, Jackson and Durante, who were Broadway favourites, particularly among after-the-tneatre club devotees, for several years, have at last been signed for a moving picture. The picture is “Roadhouse Nights,” which will be the second feature tomorrow. In this film this inimitable trio of song and dance comics display clearly why they have made such great success on the Great White Way. They sing three of their own songs in the production and Jimmy Durante, their leader, shows why he has earned for himself the title of “The Charlie Chaplin of the Talking Screen.” The splendid drama of American underworld life, “Side Street,” starring tho three Moore brothers, will have its final screening at the Strand Theatre today.