DELORES DEL RIO

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

DELORES DEL RIO

RETURN TO SCREEN IN THE "GIRL OF THE RIO." MAJESTIC ON SATURDAY. After an absence of two years owing to illness, Dolores del Rio returns triumphantly to the screen in a glamorous role. The star makes her belated celluloid appearance at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday in "Girl of the Rio." Featured with her is Leo Carillo, rapidly becoming an outstanding screen star. Miss Del Rio's reappearance is a fortuitous one in that she selected a story which affords in plot structure, atmosphere" and treatment a fit setting for her rare talents as an actress. She plays the role of "The Djw.,' who is forced by circumstances to dance and sing in a riotous cSIe iust across the border from tlie Umted States. As in real cafes of this type — notably in fia Juana, Juarez and Mexicali — there are scores of interes fng types, Mexicans, Chinese, men on a spree, commission girls, and the ever-pa-esent, soft-spoken gamblei-s. The picutre setting is a faithful reproduction of such a border toivn wi'ii the addition of a superb rancho exterior and interior. One of the sets is a gorden spreading over an acre and a half that was laid out in two days with thousands of po'.ted tropical plants and trees producing an exotic effect rarely attained in films. Dramatically, Miss Del Rio portrays what critics have declared to be the best starring role of her career, combining the poetic beauty of her work in "Eamona" and "Evangeline" with the vivicaity and movement of "What Price Glory." Supporting the star are Leo Carillo, who plays the vainglorious Don Jose Tostado, the self-proclaimed "bes' eaballero in all Mecieo"; Norman Foster, who-wins the fair Dolores' heart; Stanley Fields and Ralp'h Ince, arch villains; Edna Murphy and Frank Campeau.