MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 46, 16 October 1931, Page 4

MAJESTIC

TO-^IGHT. Whether caveman tactics are an aid to marital happiness is the principle helf'up for"tbe"public's" opinion in "Bflnd Wnyes,'.', whjch opens qt the Majestiq Theatee to-night. '"'tli tbe case of a modern wife shown on**the ''screbn in this instance, interpreted by Genevieve Tobin, ' there can be 'little dou'ht but that she earned the 'kiiockbut blow mete'd out 'to her by" Cdnrad Nag'el, a patient', "henpecked" hubby.* 4 ' Based '* on "the stage play, "Half Go'ds," by ' Sidney ' 'Howard, Blind Wives" is' one O'f the mqsf^flksd 4of pictiires 'of tbe 'yeak pbssessing as it does*, a strbrig appeal to all. 1 * It'is the" sfory of "a young couple, financially comfortable, who drift perilously cloSe to the reef of the divorce court through the wife's lack; of consideration fof her husband, her selfishhess and her nagging petulance. Just what a husband, madly in love with a wife of this type should do, has long been a problem with which divorce courts and families have had to deal ahd it is claimed that "Blind Wives/ presents an entirely new angle on this subject. ' Without exceptibn, critics throughout the" country who have seeh the production previewed have been "unlimited in their praise of both the cast and the' story. Miss Tobfn, who, after several "years as a star'of the New York and London stage, invaded Hollywood a few months ago and promptly made a name for herself in her firsf pietur.e, "A Lady Surrenders,""is seen as a 1931-model wife. Shq is interested" in psycho:analysis, in fine elpthes, in parties, "iii fact almost everytHing except her husband, her home and two children. As the long suffering and deyoted husband, 6'onrad 'Nag'el is'said to give one of the putstapding performances of h(s career, while Monroe Owsley, who leaped to fame with his portrayal of fhe "other man" in /Holiday," again gives a sterling performarice as the. "old pal" who has a weakness for pretty women. Ho'bart Henley, director of "Blind Wives," selected a most capable cast for this, his first picture for Universal ih many years, among whom are Ilka Chase, Zasu Pitts, Sidney Bracdy, Slim Summerville, George Irving, Richard Tucker and Bertha Mahn.