MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 March 1932, Page 2

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT THE DEVIL TO PAY With direction that makes most of a good story, sparkling dialogue, amusing situations, and a swell supporting cast, Ronald Colman rounds out a splendid entertainment by giving one of his best portrayals of his career in "The Devil to Pay," which is showing at the Majestic Theatre tonight. The picture, described as a sophisticated comedy drama in the modern manner, has to do with the life and loves of Willie Leeland, played by Ronald Colman, wayward • son of a wealthy and unsympathetic British Peer who, in an effort to m&ke something of his adventurous son, gives him a start in South Africa. The story opens with Willie disgusted with his exile, and longing for the lights of London, auctioning his belongings to obtain money -enough for . a passage home. Never having ex- f perienced real love, he decides he will I marry a wealthy girl and settle down I independent of his father. Arriving I in London with £20 in his pocket, he ! spe'nds it all in buying a dog, and j in taking ari' actress, and acquaintance | of fonner years, ,,to dinner. ! Next morning he meets his fate — I falling deeply iri love — and with ari j he'ites's, played " by Loretta Young. j Marrying for money, and marrying | one he loves who has money ,are view- ; ed by Willie as irreconeilable. The I dialogue is bright, witty and spark- j ling in the true Lonsdale manner, and : the part of Willie was especially written to fit the engaging Colman per- ; sonality.