MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 105, 24 December 1931, Page 7

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT All the world's great arts have been mobilised for service in Frank Lloyd's Fox Movietone production, "East Lynne," featuring an all star / cast headed hy Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus, Beryl Mercer, O. P. Heggie and David Torrenee. This romantic sereen drama suggested hy Mrs. Henry Wood's internationally celebrated novel, will have its final screening to-night at the Majestic Theatre. History shares honours with« the heart interest in "East Lynne." One of the outstanding scenes in this emotional romance is a living reproduction of the historically famous seene of Emperor William of Germany at Yersailles with his entire staff at the close of the Franco-Prus-sian War. Bismarck is seen reading the famous proclamation stating that the Emperor takes possession of Paris. Earlier in thc production a brief sequence showirg the bombardment of Paris by the Prussian forces is enacted. It is during this sweeping scene that Isabel, played by Ann Harding, is snowed under an avalanehe of debris from hombarded and falling buildings. Music, too, plays an important role in "East Lynne," Richard Fall, famous Viennese composer of "The Dollar Princess" and other operettas and compositions, has written an original French martial air, a Yiennese schottische and two waltzes. In addition he supervised the playing of famous classic compositions and the singing of "Then You'll Remember Me" by Miss Harding. Joseph Urban, foremost designer of settings for stagfe and screen and architect of royal palaces and many of New York's finest structures, personally supervised the designing and construction of the sets in "East Lynne." These settings are representative of various moods of life in London, East Lynne, Vienna and Paris,