MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 December 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. Norma Shearer never looked more beautiful than in "Strangers May Kiss," her new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer co-starring vehicle with Robert Montgomery, which was screened last night at the Majestie Theatre. In the picturisation of th'e daring Ursula Parrott novel, Miss Shearer essays the most glamorous role of her career and achieves a greater performance than in "The Divorcee," which won for her so wide an acclaim from press and public. Co-starring wiht Miss Shearer, Robert Montgomery plays the part of the devoted but humble sweetheart. Neil Hamilton enacts th'e role of the rugged' adventurer. George Fitzmaurice has directed this fflm from the sensation hook, iendowing it with a pictorial background against which races the dramatic plot to a sweeping climax. The supporting cast is particularly imposing, including such players as Marjorie Rambeau, Hale Hamilton, Irene Rich', Conchito Montenegro, Jed Prouty, Albert Conti, George Davis and Henry Armetta. As Lisbeth, the modern girl who is convinced that men believe in a double standard, Miss Shearer negotiates a difficult ch'aracterisation. Yet she makes it a convincing one and when she talces her mad fling at life you feel the humility of her realisation that, after all, conventions are man-made laws and women must remain within the boundary establisbed by a smug social system.