POSSESSED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 7

POSSESSED

JOAN CRAWFORDS MOST AMBITIOUS DRAMATIC EFFORT. EXCELLENT SUPPORTING CAST. • O The attraetion at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, December 10, is "Possessed." in whieh Joan Crawford and Clark Gable have the leading roles. This picture, which was adapted from the Edgar Selwyn stage success "The Mirage," is believed to be Miss Crawford's most ambitious effort in the straight dramatic field. Wallace Ford, New York stage player; Skeets Gallagher, well-known talkie comedian; Frank Conroy, Marporie White, John Miljan and Clara Blandick are important members of the supporting cast. " The picture was directed by Clarence Brown, who was responsible for the suceess of mo>st of Greta Garbo's vehicles and who recently seored with Norma Shearer's "A Free Soul." The plot of "Possessed" concerns a

! factory girl who longs for wealth and j admiration and finds both in the per- ! son of Clark Gable, only to give them up when she learns that she is standing in the way of his p'olitical suceess. Highlights of the story are Miss Crawford's impassioned outburst in j the box factory to the effeet that poor wives are nothing but unpaid servants; her first glimpse of luxury — a private car temporarily in the railroad yards; her quarrel with her homej town sweetheart; her first meeting j with Clark Gable; the discovery that j Gable's friends won't bring their wives j to her parties; her disillusionment j anent the power of wealth alone to I make one happy. Powerful Climax Scene. ! The plot also reaches high spots, in 1 the scend in which Miss Crawford I learns that she stands in the way of ! Gable's political aspirations; her hero- ! ic attempt to put herself from Gable's j life by aceepting the marriage propo- ; sal of a man whom she does not love; and the climax scene in which she ! makes a dramatic speech at a political j convention. i A further attraetion of "Possessed" ! is the singing on the part of Miss j Crawford of "How Long Will It Last?" written by Max and Joe Meyer.