MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 265, 2 July 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT With a cast of stage and screen notables, including Lionel Atwill, the international star, in the leading role, "The Silent Witness," the Fox mystery drama opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre. As a stage play it was a sensational success both on the^ Broadway stage and in the capitals of Europe and in its talking picture. form it is repeating that success. Mr. Atwill plays the same role in the film as he created in the stage "production and several other members of the stage cast are also to be seen in the photoplay. They include Bramwell Fletcher, Wyndham Standing, Alan Mowbray, and Lowden Adams. The feminine honors are shared by Greta Nissen, beautiful blonde screen siren, last seen in "Good Sport," and Helen Mack, Fox's debutante star, who makes her screen debut in the picture. Weldon Heyburn is also featured. The story concerns a father, who at the risk of his own neck on the gallows, assumes the guilt for a murder in which his weakling son is involved. On the witness stand he presents a genuine and apparently strong alibi, ' but much to his surprise it is torn to shreds by the attorney for the Crown and he is forced to admit the crime. At this point a startling bit of evidence is introduced that leads to the strange and unexpected denouement. Much of the action of the story takes place in the court room at Old Bailey, London, and shows the speed with which British justice works. There are no delays or red tape so common to the court system of this country.