MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 213, 3 May 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT Thirty thousand miles for atmosphere ! Nothing better illustrates the care and expense involved in the making of a motion picture than the recent "location" trip by a sound unit from Universal studios for the purpose of filming exterior scenes for "East of Borneo," the strange Far Eastern drama which opened last night at the Majestic Theatre. The story is laid in the wild jungle country of the Malay Peninsula, and many of its scenes were actually made there by an expedition which travelled half-way around the world from the studios in Hollywood. The story ;concerns an Oriental rajah, an American woman and her former husband. The latter, embittered by his unsuccessful marital venture, has chosen literally to bury bimself in the Malay jungles where he is the only white man, and where he acts as personal physician to the rajah of the district. The wife, feeling the return of her old love for her former husband, follows him to this tropical outpost, and it is after her arrival that the story takes on an unusual quality of tense drama. Seientifically "East of Borneo" is full of wild charm. Most of the scenes take place in the palace of the rajah, a picturesque ruin situated on the bank of a crocodile-infested river, with an active volcano topping the mountain range in the middle distance. The east, headed by Rose Hobart and Charles Bickford, is excellent.