HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE
Undoubtedly one of tho very finest films seen in Dunedin, ‘ haughty Marietta,’ has commenced a return season at His Majesty’s Theatre. ‘ Naughty _ Marietta ’ is a dramatic operetta with a colourful background that gives point to the excellent story which the production sots out to toll. Victor Herbert’s music serves to sot off tho entertainment delightfully. There are many outstanding features in tho film, but probably none so striking as tho character drawing of tho versatile Jeanette MacDonald in tho title role. Tho honours certainly go to this vivacious little actress, but she has a strong rival in Nelson Hddy, a young man whoso screen personality has already won him faithful followers
in New Zealand. The latter is cast as Captain-Warrington, the leader of a troop of French mercenaries in Louisiana, and he rescues Marietta after she has been captured by pirates, and immediately falls in love with her. Her capture by a gang- of unshaven pirates brings the debonair captain into the picture, and he, believing Saucy Marietta, to be merely a husband-seeking _ immigrant, treats her with familiarity, and she only pretends to resent it. They sing their way through an eventful courtship which culminates in a gallant rescue in the face of heavy odds._ There is ample comedy relief, and this is characteristically presented by Frank Morgan in the role of a vacillating colonial governor with a very keen eye for a pretty figure, hut a wholesome respect for his wife’s tongue.
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Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14
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246HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Evening Star, Issue 22453, 25 September 1936, Page 14
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