THE YELLOW TICKET

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 306, 20 August 1932, Page 7

THE YELLOW TICKET

DAYS OF RUSSIAN BARBARIC SPLENDOUR JUSTIFIED ; PORTRAYED. ELISSA LANDI STARRING Romance, intrigue, charm and pathos are elements that mabe "The Yellow Tieket," Raoul Walsh's production for Fox Films, opening its engagement at the Majestic Theatre next Monday, a picture of unusual enteraining quality. Elissa Landi, the beautiful and talented daughter of an Austrian countess, novelist and emotional actress, portrays the leading feminine role, with Lionel Barrymore and Laurence Olivier, handsome newcomer from the London stage, in the principal male parts. Other notables of the screen in " tbe cast are Walter Byron, Rita La Roy, and Sarah Padden. "The Yellow Ticket" reveals a true and dramatic picture of the days of barbaric spelndour in Russia, an uncoloured etching of the most autocratic period in modern history. It depicts the dramatic adventures of a beautiful and virtuous peasant girl who failing to secure a passport ! to visit her father, who is dying in | a distant prison, accepts a yellow tic- j lcet which permits scandalous women j to travel any place unhampered. Failing to register at the police station when she reaches St. Petersburg, she is thrown into prison. When she ' is realeased she finds hereself an out- i caSt, hounded and persecuted by the police. Eventually she falls in love with a handsome English newspaper correspondent and becomes his secretary, but she cannot escape the police. She becomes so enmeshed in a web spun for her by its insidious head that she is, at last, forced to shoot him. How she escapes the horrible fate that awaits her, offers one of the most startling denouements ever presented on the screen. , As the persecuted girl, Miss Landi,

is said to rise to new emotional heights, and as the cruel and lustful head of the secret police, Barrymore, it is claimed, excels anything he has previously achieved on the screen.