MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 194, 9 April 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT The majesty of snowswept forests and men whose passions are as stark — contrasted with others whose ideas of duty are as unchangeable as the mountains — romance, beauty, terror, and drama that rings true — are characteristics of "River's End," James Oliver Curwood's great tale of the Far North, which opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre. The grimly glamorous picture opens with a inan hunt in the icy wastes of the Arctic. And when fugitive and captor meet they find themselves as alike in appearance as though they were brothers, but as far apart in temperament as the poles. On the way back through the wilderness the captor dies and the hunted man dons his clothes and , makes an attempt to bluff his way through the outposts to freedom. Once there he finds that he has been proved innocent of the murder of which he had been accused — but dares not divulge his identity without subjecting himself to the charge of having killed his pursuer. Into this tangle of circumstances come a girl and a little boy — and the story rushes to a tremendous and unexpected climax. _ Charles Biekford is magnificent in his portrayal of the1 dual role — of pursued and pursuer. His vigorous manliness is evidenced in the trylng part and Evalyn Knapp is bewitching as the girl loved by both them. EVeryone loves honest melodrama. Here it is with the bigness and sincerity which lifts it forever from the hackneyed. You will agree that "River's End" is the finest melodrama of the great outdoors you have ever seen.