MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 235, 26 May 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT MIN AND BILL This picture is suggested by Lorna 1 Moor's "Dark Star" novel, and is very ably directed by George Hill. The cast is a strong one, the acting masterful, and pathos and comedy intermingled in a wonderful manner. Dorothy Jordon is Nancy, a waif brought up by Min (Marie Dressler),

on the waterfront, where she keeps a boarding joint, helped by Bill (Wallaee Beery). Min has told Nancy's drink-sodaen mother that the child died, and gets the girl to help her about the house- This brings the authorities down on her, and she has to send Nancy to school. The mother turns up and in fear of her Min takes her savings from the old stocking and pays for Nancy at a distant boarding school, where she meets and later becomes engaged to a youth of the wealthy classes. The mother again appears and diseovers the truth, then determines to blackmail daughter and son-in-law, but is deterred by a bullet from Min's gun. Min is arrested and led off, while the crowd is shouting good-byes to a radiant bride. In drama of this kind Marie Dressler finds her true forte and is incomparable in the way. she shows the deepest affection for the girl while in manner she is rough and even brutal. But Nancy responds and Dorothy Jordan gives a fine performance of a girl who is charming and perfectly natural in the midst of her rough, crude surroundings, while chewing gum and telling.lies. Wallace Beery is perfect in a role greatly different from that of the old sinner in ''The Big House." He is Min's pal, and, while getting at her in small ways behind her back, he yet sticks loyally to her in her real need, and there is something very pathetic in his futile effort to drag her off to Mexico to save her after she has shot the mother, Majorie Rambeau. Miss Rambeau gives an act which shows her talent in this line.