GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT. A screen drama of the South Seas that is refreshingly different, and tensely gripping in its many unusual situations, "After the Rain," the Fox picture that opened last night at the Grand Theatre was enthnsiastically received by its first audience. Convincingly enacted by an excellent cast headed by Spencer Tracy and Peggy Shannon it details the hectic affairs of a defiant and sarcastic young lady who, in her own words, "knows the waterfront from Mandalay to Panama." Accompanying a hard-boiled schooner captain from Singapore when she gets in trouble with the police, she is set ashore on an island nearby to await his return from Australia. There she attracts the attention of an amorous politician and an adventurous pearl fisher. The first wants lier to take a trip with him; the seeohd — much to her amazement — • wants to marry her. Torn between these opposing infiuenees and ^the fear of the captain's return, she finds life very complicated indeed, and climaxes follow thick- and fast to a highly dramatic ending;
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 7
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172GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 423, 6 January 1933, Page 7
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