MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 354, 15 October 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT. Married men: h'ow would you like to he able to disguise yourself sufficiently to make love to your own wives? This situation supplies the reasons for the laughs in the amusing comedy, "The Guardsman," in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are co-starred at the Majestic Theatre to-night. In this naughty Continental romance, an actor is very jealous of his wife. He imagines that h'er interest in him is waning; that she is casting her eyes towards other men. He resolves to test her fidelity. He disguises himself as a rough, virile Russian guardsman with a deep guttural voice. As the guardsman he succeeds in gainirig a clandestine randezvous with his own wife. Seeond Feature. Ahounding in thrills and offering something distinctly different in screen entertainment, "Disorderly C'onduct" opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. With Spencer Tracy in the grimly powerful role of a police officer who abandons honesty for larcency, and an imposing list of film favourites in the supporting cast, this Fox production is heralaed as 'the foremost dramatic offering of the year. The excitement begins in the first reel wh'en Tracy, pursuing some suspicious-loolc-ing trucks, is knocked into the ditch by the bootleggers' patrol car. Subsequently he artests the daughter of the city' leading politician, and is demoted as a consequence. Smarting under this ereatment, he decides it does not pay to be honest, and starts taking "easy money" from various speakeasies. This immediately involves him with his captain, a rightly incorruptible officer, with the politician's daughter with whom the captain is in love, and with sundry crooks who suspect Tracy of double-crossing tbem. A raid on A raid on one of the "clubs" that Tracy is protecting, involving the girl in the killing of a crook, and a gang revenge that brings about the death of Tracy's nephew, all dead up to one of the grimmest and most thrilling climaxes in film history.