MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 136, 1 February 1932, Page 4

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT Ronald Golman plays a smooth and polished English gentleman, a society , favourite and popular athlete dn his third and latest talking picture, "Raffles," the mystery fhriller which screens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. Refined and suave though he may : 8 be, Raffles finds the lure of criminal • adventure more than he can resist. In ; consequence his many distinguished ; associates are victimised time and , again without the faintest suspicion of who the malefactor can be. Being | parallel in theme, "Raffles" is a fit | successor to Colman's two previous ■ | talkie suc.cesses, "Bulldog Drum- -- mond" and "Condemned!" 5 It is t'his great role, made famous I on the stage in America by Kyrle | Bellew and in England by Sir Gerald 3 Du Maurier, and in silent pictures, by § John Barrymore and HoUse Peters, I that Colman is to be seen. Goldwyn s claims that even though the part has I come to be rigidly set by tradition, g Colman gives a startling original in- 1 terpretation that not only differs | from any earlier portrayal of the role j| but also from anythi'ng Colman has | yet attempted. = Kay Francis, who gave so fine a | performance opposite Colman's I friend, William Powell, in 'Street of 5 Chance," is the Gwen of the story. | She and Colman play out a touching I romance that is an essential part of S the play's high adventure. |