MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 December 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

T]0-NIGHT. The attraction at the Majestic Theatre to-night is "Possessed," in which Joan Crawford and Clark Gable have the leading roles. This picture, which was adapted from the Edgar Selwyn stage suecess "The Mirage," is believed to be Miss Crawford's most ambitious effort in the straight dramatic field. The plot of "Possessed" concerns a factory girl who longs for wealth and admiration and finds both in the person of Clark Gable, only to give them up when she learns that she is standing in the way of his political success. Highlights of the story are Miss Crawford's impassioned outburst in the box factory to the effect 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 hometown sweetheart; her first meeting with Clark Gable; the discovery that Gable's friends won't bring their wives to her parties; her disillusionment anent the power of wealth alone to make one happy. The plot also reaches high spots. in the scenel in which Miss Crawford learns that she stands in the way of Gable's political aspirations; her heroic attempt to poit herself from Gable's life by accepting the marriage proposal of a man whom she does not love; and the climax seene in which she makes a dramatic speech at a political convention. The tremendous success of "Shanghai Express," advsnture-story whose scenes were laid in a foreign land, augurs well for the popular interest in George Bancroft's newest, "The "World and the Flesh'," which is the second feature. This story of the swashbuckling sea captain who led his men in riotous assaults on the nobility in the days of Russia's 1917 revolution, is packed with authentic action scenes — interiors and exteriors on land and sea. It's a tale of carnage and gunpowder, with a delicate thread of golden romance intertwined with the gusty excitement of its action.