MAJESTIC THEATRE
TO-NIGHT. The hero of "The Big House" plays the father of "Skippy" in a combination that is really an event of the screen season. Wallace Beery and Jackie Coogan appear as two stars in a isingle picture in "The Champ," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's dramatic romance of sporting life and the human, angle behind it, which the Majestic Theatre screens to-night. Primarily it is a mighty drama of the love of a father and his son. There is a gripping element of human sacrifice. Surrounding this is comedy galore and the thrills of a Mexican border town, with its gambling, racing and prize fighting. Much of it was actually fihned in Mexico. Beery is seen as a defeated fight champion, who has taken his small son to a border resort where he tries j to achieve a comeback. To all others he is a "has-heen," but to the boy. he is the greatest man on earth. Arid, when the time comes, the old fighter makes a sacrifice for the boy's future j that proves him the best man of them all.
A notable cast appears. Irene Rich plays the divorced wife of the fighter and Rosco Ates and Edward Brophy form a comedy team as the fight trainer and manager. Hale Hamilton, Jesse Scott and Marcia Mae Jones also score. The dramatic gaol episode, the fight with' the Mexican police, the great prize fight, the thrilling race at Caliente, are among the highlights of the production and inside glimpses of a Mexican border town give it an authenticity that adds glamour. The second feature affords an opportunity . of seeing Claudette Colbert, filmland's "most unscandalised" brunette, as a much scandalised blonde, in "The Wiser Sex." The fast-moving and dramatic account of a girl who proves too clever for an underworld interested in breaking up her romance with' a youthful crusader. Miss Colbert is required in several of the scenes to masquerade as a golden-haired gold-digger to get information which will keep her sweetheart, Melvyn Douglas, from being convicted of a murder he did not commit.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 396, 3 December 1932, Page 3
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