ROMANTIC PLAY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 288, 30 July 1932, Page 7

ROMANTIC PLAY

"THE BELOVED BACHELOR" AT MAJESTIC NEXT SATURDAY A CAPTIVATING STORY After four years of meritorious work upon the screen in support of the biggest stars in filmdom, Paul ! Lulcqs at last steps up to the high platform— and becomes himself a ! central chafacter ih a talkie. | His first big vehicle, "The Beloved Bachelor," comes to the Majestic. Theatre on Saturday next.. He. is supported in this romantic and humorous play by Doroffty Jordan, Charlie Ruggles and 'Vivienne Osborne. In this romantic play, Lukas is seen as a young sculptor who falls in love with a beautiful actress, only to lose the prospect of marrying her when she suspects him wrongly as a man with a "past." Meanwhile he adopts the six-year-old daugliter of the woman who had beqn his principal model in many of his sculptures. Twelve years latei' he once more meets his actress sweetheart. She has been married. He has been slowly gaining world-wide renown as an artisan in his craft. The old spark of love flares up. She announces she will get a divorce. But by this time there is a triangle— formed*' hy the presence of the adopted daughter, who has now grown to full womanhood and is rapidly f alling in. love with her guardian. The climax of the picture leads to happiness without the use of ballistics. Dorothy Jordan plays the role of the beautiful young ward; Vivienne Osborne is the old love who came back. Charlie Ruggles, droll comedian of "Charlie's Aunt" and "The Girl Habit," is seen and heard in an uproarious comedy part as the fellow artist of Lukas. I