MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 December 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT "The Broken Lullaby," the tremendously heart-stirring romance drama of the days after the war, opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night. The producers have brought forward a hig cast of film favourites to 'enliance the power of this film's pretentious story. Lionel Barrymore plays thp role of an embittered father whose) youthful soldier son was killed in the war— and who suddenly realises that the French fathei's had sons too. Nancy> Carroll is cast as a very romantid-minded German girl who falls in love with an ex-soldier of France, even though he has told her that he was the man who had killed her sweetheart during the war. Phillips Holmes is seen as the young Frenchman who devotes his timo after the war, to seeking out the girl whose name he found on an unsent letter in the pocket of a dead , German. - Tom Douglas, young .stage star from New York and London, plays th'e part of the German soldier. Zasu Pitts, whose mournful complacency in the face of gopd fortune or bad has brought her widespread film fame, is the gossipy small-town German servant. Lucien Littlefield plays a Frenchhating busybody who wants to wecl iNancy, after he learns of her sweetheart's death. Louise Carter, New York stage actress and playwright, makes her screen debut as tlre wife of the stern and pompous Barrymore. The picture deals with life in a small town. Holmes is the hero of the production — a former soldier who finds love alone can erase the anguish which war-time horrors had stamped on his heart.