GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 5

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.

Tho enthusiastic audiences at Saturday's matinee and evening performance at the Grand Opera House demonstrated conclusively that the popularity of the "Three Live Ghosts" now in its third week at that theatre, is rather waxing than waning. The working out of the plot was followed with great keenness from start to finish, and hearty laughter greeted the many humorous passages of this notable farce-comedy. As the supporting picture there Is being screened this week Lon Chaney's latest film, "Thunder." As "Grumpy," the greathearted old engine-driver, Lon Chancy is seen in a new role, and his deft characterisation makes it a veritable tour de force. There is romance, speed, and realism in "Thunder " and as the heroine the dainty and charming' Phyllis Haver is to be seen in what she has announced as her farewell to the screen Gnrmpy's thundering' locomotive Is portrayed ploughing Its way through a-howling blizzard, scattering deep snowdrifts as it rushes alone mak ing up time so that the veteran engineer's' proud record of "always on time" shall not be broken • and in the last scene of all It races to the rescue, a Red Cross relief train, through tho floods and across bridges undermined by the swirling waters, bringing food, healing, and consolation to the tens of thousands of floodedout refugees in the Mississippi valley. The incidental music is of the best, and the ac companying Hearst Metrotone news reel is of exceptional Interest.