MAJESTIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 319, 5 September 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT

, A movie within a movie, depicting the neck-breaking stunts of the filrn dare-devils in a thrilling modern day romance of the air and Hollywoocl, opens at the Majestie Theatre tonight. It is "The Lost Squadron," starring Richard Dix, and is^said to be j his most roxnantic axxd dangerous role j to date. The film is Hollywood's answer to the persistent public plea for an action film based on the adventurous exploits of men courting danger for the sake of the thrill it gives them. The thrills in the picture are genuine. The author of the story, Dick Grace, the scr,een's king of stunt aviators, makes three breathless erackups — one into the ocean nnd the other two are perp-en-dicular power di'ives to the earth. Geared as it is to the tempo and the unselfish camax-adex*ie of men in peril, the film nevertheless supports a beautiful romance which blooms iixto full flower out of a chaos of wrecked planes and breathless tail spins. "The Lost Squadx'on" is the story of an air picture in the rnaking. The gay panoply of Hollywood's great film industry is i*evealed most intimately. Great batteries of caxxxex'as fill the screen on occasion; a gala Hollywood premiex-e is shown and the mysterious sound stages are opened for the first time to public inspeetion. The cast is in every respect equal to the subject matter. Supporting Dix ai'e Max-y Astor, Erich von Stroheinx, Joel McCrea, Dox-othy Jordan, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert and others.