MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Deep, elemental emotiosns underlie the plot of "Silence," the new Clive Brook-Marjorie Ramheau-Beggy Shannon melodrama which opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. It is a gripping story of a man's betrayal of the woman he loves, and his final awakening to a greater love when his daughter is imperilled by the misdeeds of his own past. Clive Brook plays the/ leading role in this story which, as a stage play, thrilled Broadway .a few seasons ago. Brook is seen at the likeable, weak and handsome crook, whose love hrings heartbrealc to the woman who loves him. , JTwenty years elapse between the early and final aetion of the story. Brook meets his danghter, grown to young womanhood, engaged to be married. Her father's past threatens her h'appiness, and Brook, awake at last to his own worthlessness, sacrifices himself to save her. The moving pdcture hrings one of the most popular stage melodramas to the screen. "Silence," a few seasons ago, was one of Broadway's hits. The second feature is "Almost Married," with Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy and Alexander Kirkland in the leading roles. A mad pianist who startl'es the nights of Paris with the weird and eerie promptings of his disordered mind, a lover, caressing, fondling with his writhing, twitching harids fighting to throw the mania off— fighting against the passionate dej sire to kill t'hose he loves, he is the type of character who elicits sympathy and at the same time engendei's hatred. Human and believable in both situations and characters, devoid of trieks or plot manipulations, the new film deals with the inner struggle of -emotions, as well as with the outer one of situations. For its colourful haclcground it talces the gay continental cities of Paris, London and St. Petersburg, Russia, and its wierdness is intensified by the strange, emotion-stirring music that runs through the film. The cast also includes Allan Dinehart, Eva Demiison, Grace Hampton, Herbert Bunston, Maria Alba, Herbert Mundin and Mary Gordon.