MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 380, 15 November 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. Another of Fannie Hurst's infrequent but always outstanding film dramatisation of understandable men and women opened at the Majestic last night with the first local showing of "Symphony of Six Millions," eofeaturing Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunne. The film is another "Humoresque" in the classical romantieism and poignancy of its subject matter and in the sheer dramatic force of its ehar-. acterisations. Like most of the stories by this eminent American authoress, the locale is New York's vibrant East Side, which is represented in the film truthfully as a throbbing symbol of intermixed racial cultures. The story is the saga of an East Side doctor, a man of extreme idealism, who consecrates his life and his great skill in the treatment, of the poor and helpness. c His family, believing that exploitation of his skill will result in -their financial betterment, influenees him to move to the exclusive Parlc Avenue section of the city. There his talents are rewarded by the wealthy, but in the meantime he has lost control with his early environment, and the idealism that had once made him devote his life to the poor. He is awakened to his former sense of duty to the poor after he perf orms an unsuccessful operation upon his father and when Jessica (Irene Dunn) herself in danger of death, shames him into a new sense of duty. Direetor Gregory La Cava has injected the elements of romance and idealism and created a film story of simple beauty, great dramatic power and human appeal. The east is perfect with Cortez and Irene Dunne and the supporting players, Anna Appel, Gregory Ratoff, Lita Chevret and Noel Madison are extremely well suited temperamentally and artistically to their difficult charaeterisations.