AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE. 1 An outstanding attraction comes to His Majesty’s Theatre, commencing at the matinee to-day, in the form of the much boomed 11 Black Pirate,” which features Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove. Several years of preliminary work were required to gather the material, to build the ships and to study the many details necessary to make the picture a true representation of piratical history. The finished product is ample reward for the time spent to make it an outstanding picture. The coloured photogrpahy is like a series of marvellous oil paintings. The brown of the men’s flesh and the sudden splash of colour in a parrot’s feather are especially noteworthy touches. The whole of its 9000 feet is done in natural colours. It is a faithful, thrilling epic of the golden days of buccaneering near the end of the eighteenth century, and depicts vividly and colourfully the hectic life of the dare-devil roamers of the Spanish Main during that era. In every way it is 'he. most stupendous production that • has ever attempted, and from end > end it is filled with the unique athtie feats that place a Fairbanks picure in a class by itself; in fact, in •The Black Pirate” the star has bought up a number of new stunts hat are as thrilling as they are novel, '’rices are ordinary, and the plans are pen at Upton’s.