The Bat - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - December 25, 1921

Just the other day I posted the ad for the second film adaptation of The Bat, The Bat Whispers (1930). Turns out that nine years to the day before The Bat Whispers opened on Christmas Day, the source material itself also opened at the Century Theatre in San Francisco on Christmas Day.

The San Francisco Examiner printed a review on the 26th, Boxing Day, which raved The Bat was "merry melodrama. Mystery and laughs; surprises and laughs; complications and laughs. Thrills all the time. And laughs all the time." Sounds like it was a lively and entertaining evening at the theatre. The review ends with the statement that The Bat "is a play you must not miss."