MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 367, 31 October 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Pathos and laughter, thrills and heart interest, all mingle in Marie Dressler's first appearance on the screen as a full-fledged star. Perhaps the story was purposely written to give her an opportunity to show every side of her many talents. Anyhow, it does. She gets roars of laughter in her comedy scenes with Polly Moran. In the vivid scene in the political meeting, where she faces the crooked mayor, she does oue of the finest _ pieces of character work ever seen on the screen, as, from a timid housewife, she changes to an accusing figure representing womanhood and dominating the scene by sheer force of personality. There is some tragedy in the picture, enough to make the fun more en-^ joyable. Marie Dressler produces an-' other clever character act, never exaggerated, and in which she strikes the human note all through very subtly. Polly Moran, as the wife of Peter (Roscoe Ates, the stuttering comedian), is Marie's friend and satellite who helps to hoost her into th'e position of Mayor of their home town. Marie's daughter is pretty Karen Morley who loves the son, William Bakewell, of a crook rival. The fihn very cleverly throws off at both the husbands in the town, and then the wives, so that points go to both sides. Roscoe Ates, as the more or less henpecked husband of Polly, scores heavily for laughs'.