MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 307, 22 August 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TONIGHT Boasting a brilliant cast of favourites, headed hy Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore and Laurence Olivier, a tensely gripping and romantic story and some of the most lavish sets that have heen flashed upon the screen in many a day, Raoul Walsh's Fox romantic drama, "The Yellow Ticket" opens its engagement to-night at the Majestic Theatre. The dramatic plot, which was adapted for the screen from Michel Morton's stage play by Jules Furthman and Guy Bolton, revolves ahout a young and sensitive Russian- girl, who through circumstances beyond her control finds it necessary to match her wits against those of the insidious head of the Czar's Secret police, with her own romance and the saftey of her lover as the stakes of the' struggle. In the end she is f orced to kill the relentless menace, only to be then faeed with graver problems that lead to a most startling denouement. The role of the girl is enacted by Miss Landi and is one that gives, full play to her histrionic talents and during her emotional scenes she rises to heights of dramatic power seldom seen and heard on the screen. Lionel Barrymore appears as the cruel and seheming police head and as usual Mr. Barrymore gives a performance that is nothing short of superb. Laurence Olivier, who only recently came to the screen from the London and, Broadway stage is excellent in the romantic male lead.