MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 269, 8 July 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "The Reekless Hour," First National's adaption of Arthur Richman's phenomenally sueoessful Broadway hit "Amhush," opened last night at the Majestic Theatre. The story is sensational and tremendously human — but it takes more than a fine story to make a fine play. The eharaeters must look and act the part and this is one of the points which makes "The Reekless Hour" ring so true. Dorothy Mackaill portrays Margaret Nichols, the heroine of the story, as no one else we can think of, could do. He recent' characterizations in "The Offlce Wife," and "Partly Husband" presented more than implications of the vivid genius for impersonations which is hers. Margaret Nichols sounds the depths, of suffering at the heights of happiness. She is a model wh'ose drab home life is in contrast, to the brilliant days in the fashion shop where she parades the peacock alley in georgeous raiment. If Dorothy Mackaill triumphs in the stellar role, her support is equally successful. The lovers are played by Conrad Nagel and Walter Byron. Her nagging mother is done by Helen Ware, while H. B. Warner superbly plays her father, keeper of a secondhand hook shop. Joan Blondell is the jealous sister, whose antics are abetted by nimble Joe Donahue. Then there is Ivan Simpson, doing another unforgettable butlex\ Big Billie House is a crooked promoter and Dorothy Peterson his startling wife. Claude Zing is the false lover's millionaire father and Mae Madison adds more than a touch of ingenuous beauty.