MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 282, 23 July 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

to-night DOUBLE FEATURE^PROGRAMME "Warner Olandkichieved fame as a portrayer of Oriental roles, by having recognitiqn thrust upon him. Now he assumes these roles because he prefers them, and the latest sample of Oland as a mandarin occurs in Paramount's "Daughter of the Dragon," which op'ens to-night at the Majestic Theatre.For th'ose who like romance seasoned with puzzles, thrills and action evolved from lurking mystery, this production talks right out and says big things to any movie audience. Mjss Wong is an oriental aetress of obvious personable points, who surrenders to her dying father's wish, and drops a glamorous point of vantage in London's theatrical firmament to project a programme of vengeanee. With all his fiendish application of chemistry and psychology, Fu Manehu was not a more resolute menace th'an the pretty daughter proves to be. Loved by an exalted gentleman of her own race, loving an English nobleman, she allows her heart dictate no chance to defeat the accomplishment of her oath. "RANGO." Rjf.ngo, an amazing pictutisation of man's and ape's eternal struggle for life in the jungles of Sumatra, opens at the Majestic Theatre to-day. it is a tense, dramatic, thrilling picture, produced f or . Paramount by Ernest Schoedsack, maker of those two well-remembered photoplays "Chang" and "Grass." In producing "Rango" an orangoutang is called rango) Schoedsack has done a unique thing in motion picture making. He shows in his film the parellel lives of an ape and his son and a native man and his son, both combating the elemental forces of nature, both fighting the bitter fight with their eternal enemy, the terror of the jungle, the tiger. In "Rango" Schroedsack has accomplished an almost impossible task. He has made of "Rango" a full and complete dramatic story. It took time (18months). It took unmatehed patience. It took magnificent courage. The result is a superb photoplay, abounding in breadth, taking thrills peppered with bright humour. "Rango" is a picture to command your attention. It is unusual, truly different entertainment of a pattern that makes for admiration and interest.