MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 114, 6 January 1932, Page 6

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT "Dirigible" is a graphic tale of courage, high adventure and hazardous endeavour. It carries its audience from the thrilling scene of a Navy day aeronautical exhibition to the dreary wastes of the Antarctic regions, and then to the boisterous warmth of the typical reception which - New York's crowds accotd a visiting celehrity. It is filled from the first reel to the last with exploits of daring and with stirring action, but it is in the poignant, human drama that much of the eharm of the picture is to he found. Ralph Graves, hero of "Submarine," "Flight," and various and sundry other Columbia successes, enacts the role of a dare-devil Navy ' flyer whose wife, torn by a torment of fear, connives to prevent his taking - a proposed flight to the South Pole. She appeals to his friend, who secretly loves her, and the flight is temporarily halted. He goes later, however, and crashes his 'plane at the Pole — and then to add another touching bit of drama, his. friend goes to his rescue in the gigantic dirigible Los Angles and brings him back find happiness with the woman both love. Capra is to be commended for his direction. He has done a notable piece of work in welding the technical details of the production logically into the story without sacrificing in the slightest degree the dramatic potentialities. The cast is uniformly good, with Holt and Graves, and Fay Wray, who plays the leading feminine role, outstanding in their various parts.