MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 451, 8 February 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT.

No film, silent or sound, has ever been produced in England which" can boast of sueh speetacular splendour, deligbtful melodies, together with an all-star cast, as "The Maid of the Mountains. The scenes of the brigands' stronghold on the mountain side, and the magnificent ballroom in which over two hundred dancers are held up by Baldasarre and his men are only matched in splendour by the banqueting hall, where, entertained by a full symphony orchestra, at a table thirty feet long, the guests toast the new Governor. During this scene Nancy Brown, the brilliant discovery for the title role, sings Fraser Simpson's famous Waltz Song, and during production rendered the number with such beauty that spontaneous app'lause, a rare happening in a studio, greeted her. Yet even niore speetacular is the setting for the arrival at the Palace of Baldasarre, played by that popular stage star, Harry Welchman, masquerading as the new Governor. The facade of the palace, on Valentian•Gothic lines, towered over the studio and on its terraces and balconies the guests wait. A guard of honour, composed of a eompany of ex-Guardsmen, parade to the stirring strains of a military band. So well-constructed was the set that there was yet room for the arrival of a coaeh and four, bearing the "new Governor," with' a mounted eseort, and filmgoers will it difficult to believe they are not seeing the real thing.