MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 381, 16 November 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. Touching the heai*t-strings with its deep pathos and its rendering of a suhlime romance, an exceptionally fine picture is now at the Majestic Theatre. Th film is "Symphony of Six Millions," co-featuring Ricords Cortez and Irene Dunne in a story of deep human feeling by Fannie Hurst. Like most of Miss Hurst's tales it is a sympathetic saga focussed on the lives of two people who are integral parts of a dominant background of traditions and economic strictures. Vaguely reminiscent of "Humoresque" — one of the screens' undisputed classics from the pen of this eniinent authjoress — the film paints in bold dramatic colours as it tells the poignant story of a Ghetto doctoi*'s love of a teacher of the slums.t Its theme is based on the inherent idealism of man and the eternal quest for romance of woman. It starts with a boy in the slums who becomes a famous doctor despite social and economic barriers. It shows him as a dreamer, wishing only to heal the sick, never caring ^whether he is paid. He is forced by his ambitious family to move to a Park Avenue office where the rich live. There he makes money and becomes the most noted surgeon of his city. But he has lost the respect of the slums in the quest of money. In a tragically heautiful scene Cortez fails in an operation upon his aged father, and his faith in himself is wrecked, he abandons his doctorate and hides from the world until he is recalled by Jessica (Irene Dunne).