RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

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

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

AUTHENTIC ATMOSPHERE IN PARAMOUNT'S LATEST PRODUCTION. "THE WORLD AND THE FLESH." A gusty adventure-story of the hectic days during the Rusisian revolu- : tion is the current vehicle for George j Bancroft at the Majestic Theatre on ! Saturday, December 10. Bristling ! with tense dramatic thrills, "Th'e 1 World and the Flesh" provides the j ebullient Bancroft with his most sen- t sational characterisation. .Paramount hais gone to great pains ; in providing an abundance of authentic atmosphere for its burly star in this film production. Scores of scenes in scores of indoor and outdoor loeales heighten the realism of the story, which moves rapidly from one thrilling episode to the next. j Miriam Hopkims, blonde favourite of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "The Smiling Lieutenant" and "Dancers in the Dark" heads the supporting cast, which includes Alan Mowbray, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Oscar Ap- ^ fel and Reginald Barlow. Bancroft is seen as the domineering sea captain, whose rough-and-ready j sailor crew worship him. At the outbreak of the revolution they take an active part in the ontslaught up'On the aristocrats. Bursting in on a group of fleeing nobles who are feasting at an inn in a seacoast town, they make the fugitives their captives. But a counter-attack by loyal Cossacks turns the tide and .Bancroft, with three of his men, become prisoners. With Miriam Hopkins, a peasant girl who has long been living a life of luxury with the aristocrats, the revolutionaries are taken aboard the ship for transportation to a city that is still loyal to the government. In a new outbreak aboard the ship, Bancroft and his men take over -the vessel and steer it on a course to Theodosia, a town in the hands of the revolutionists. The nobles, now Bancroft's captives, persuada Miriam to exercise her feminine charms on Bancroft. so that, while she plays Delilah, they can curb the power of this revolutionary Samson. But the plan does not work out as they scheme it. Bancroft falls in love with Miriam — and :she finds herself warming up to him, genuinely. , When Miriam is threatened with execution by the town's tribunal, Bancroft, by -a ruse, effects her release. By so doing; he is captured himself, j and doomed to hang, but a lucky turn of events frees him — and he joins Miriam for a happy conclusion.

NO ONE MAN

STORY OF HASTY MARRIAGE AND RESULTANT REPENTANCE. POPULAR THEME. "No One Man," which features Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez and Paul Lukas, at the Grand Theatre on Monday next. is a story of marriage that was not made in heaven . . . of a bachelor who was best man at at his fiancee's wedding . . . of a girl who married in haste — and repented at Reno. It has the glamour of a superwealthy background — Palm Beach — a millionaire's mansion' — a luxurious ocean liner. It has the glitter pf lavish parties . . . gowns of breath-taking loveliness . . . girls of seductive beauty. It has the kind of entertainment the public enjoys.