MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 266, 4 July 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT GLAMOUR OF OLD VIENNA TOLD IN STORY AND SONG VIENNESE NIGHTS Viennese Nights," which opens at the Majestic to-night, is the creation of Sigmund Rombery and Oscar Hammerstein, the two who have created more glamorous and melodious entertainment than any living collaborators. The story is of exquisite tenderness, the theme being the deathlessness of beauty. The settings are gorgeous, being all in natural col- I ours. The glamour of old .Vienna, told so often in story and- song, is caught with stirring vitality. Marching troups, gay ladies, street gamins, stout burghers, ample fraus, all seen in the flickering golden light, of leaves blowing, horses bearing ancient vehicles crowded with gay roysterers, all are there. But this is but the beginning of the haunting story of love and renunciation. The action . covers a period of fifty years and some of the scenes are in New York, shifting back to Vienna for the thrilling and unexpected climax. The story is built about the fate of a girl who falls in love with a poor musician, but is forced to marry a rich officer, by her ambitious father. Through poverty and exile the poor man works desperately trying to finish the symphony which is to be dedicated tb her, and it is the grand-children of the two who find the realisation of the lost dream. Walter Pidgeon, Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jean Hersholt, June Pursell, Louise Fazenda, Bert Roach and Alice Day /are in the cast. Alan Crosland directed. The entire picture is in natural eolour photography.