MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 368, 1 November 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND 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. iSh'e gets roars of laughter in her comedy scenes with Polly Moran, In the vivid scene in the poHtieal meeting, where she faces the crooked mayor, she does one of the finest pieces of character work ever seen on the screen, as, from a timid housewife, she changes to an accusing figure represeriting womanhood and dominating the scene by sheer foree of personality. There is some tragedy in the ]cdcture, enough to make the fun more enjoyabie. Marie Dressler produces another elever character act, never exaggerated, and in which she strikes the human note all through very subtly. Polly Moran, as the wife of Peter (Rospoe Ates, the stuttering comedian), is Marie's friend and satellite who helps to boost her into th'e position of Mayor of their home town. Marie's daughter is pretty Karen Morley who loves the son, William Blakewell, of a crook rival. The film 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 F'olly, scores heavily for laughs.