MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 373, 7 November 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "Arrowsmith," the masterpiece oi , Sinclair Lewis, comes as a motion pieture to the Majestic Theatre to-night in a great production by Samuel Goldwyn, with Ronald Colman playing the title role of the crusading young doctor. Metropolitan critics have already hailed "Arrowsmith" as one of the most important pictures -of the year, and Sinclair Lewis himself, after witnessing its premiere, acknowledged publicly that it had succeeded in doing everything he had tried to do in the hook. The distinction of its story, the importanoe of its cast and the acelaim with which it has been received combine to make it a cinematic event. Helen Hayes, the stage star who recently triumphed in her first screen appearance, in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet," plays opposite Ronald Colman in the role of the devoted wife who risks her life for her hushand's career. Richard Bennett, the stormy petrel of the stage and fath'er of Constance, Joan and Barbara Bennett, has a major role as Sondelius, the plague-fighting Swede and A. E. Anson, an eminent stage figure making his motion pdcture debut, has another rich character role. IVlyrna Loy, Florencs Britton, Claude King, Alec B. Francis take important parts. The story of "Arrowsmith" is the story of one man's devotion and ambition in the battle of .humanity against the death-dealing plagues which' have always been the scourge of mankind. It sweeps from the midwestern countryside to a tropical island in the West Indies, where young Dr. Arrowsmith and his eolleagues go to battle against the black death. His relations with the little nurse h'e marries as a struggling country doctor, continuing throughout the picture, weave a broad eurrent of romance through its stirring scenes.