MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 270, 9 July 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT "After To-morrow," the muchheralded Fox emotional drama directed by Frank Borzage and co-fea-turing Charles Farrell and Marian Nixon, reaches the screen of the Majestic Theatre to-day. Adapted to the screen by Sonya Levien from the John Golden and Hugh Strange stage success, it presents the drama of two everyday youngsters who want to get married but cannot because of their depend- j ent families. The loeale of the story is New j York City where hundreds of parallel cases may be found every day, just as in Beattie or Des Moines. Working in their lowly office posi- . tions, the sweethearts save their nickles and dimes in a marriage fujtid which soon becomes known as the M.F. This, they hope, will swell into a sum large enough to finance .their j marriage, sometime in the bright future — "After To-morrow." But something always happens to their savings. Minna Gombell, as Marian's mother, has a monthly habit of calling on the fund to help with her extravagant bills contracted for cheap finery. Her love affair with a boarder in the house, played by William Pawley, is another of her secret vices. Farrell's mother, the comical Ma Piper of the drama, portrayed by J osephine Hull, could ai'd the ■sweet-,' . hearts if she would only consent to ' live with them after the marriage. But, according to her viewpoint, that would entail surrendering her rights as the head of Piper's home. "\Yilliam Collier, Sr., Nora Lane, Ferdinand Munier are the other outstanding members of the east.