MAJESTIC THEATRE
TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT Romance within romance and thrill within thrills pile one upon the other in a new Richard Dix starring film showing at the Majestic Theatre. The show is "The Lost Squadron," which employs many new and unusual dramatic elements in a story packed with suspense and action. "The Lost Squadron" is a movie within a movie and details the reckless camaraderie of the film stunt aviators. A superlative cast supports Dix. Included in the list of players are Mary Astor, Eric von Stroheim, Dorothy Jordan, Robert Armstrong and Hugh Herbert. Miss Astor and Von Stroheim play the roles they have portrayed in real : life. Miss Astor impersonates the part of a screen. star, while Von Stro- ■ heim assumes the character of an j eccentric director who deliberately I sends his stunt aviators to their ! ■deaths for the sake of spectacular thrills in his picture. I The film shows how movies are j made and in addition presents a | wholesome romance which sandwiches ! in between spectacular crashes and I air manoeuvres. [ Dick Crace, famed stunt aviator j and novelist, wrote the story and | performed many of the "crack-ups" ; seen in the picture. j
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 321, 7 September 1932, Page 3
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