GRAND THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 459, 17 February 1933, Page 3

GRAND THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Zane Grey's "The Golden West," the romantic Fox thriller, brings the indomintable George O'Brien to the screen in the first dual role of his career. The opening scenes are laid in the old south where a family feud results in a tragedy and shatters a romance between the hero and heroine. The locale then shifts to the far west, where the real thrills of thq picture take place. Torn from his sweetheart the boy joins a waggon train going west and finally meets a pioneer girl whom he marries. When their son has reached the age of three years, Indians ma.ssacre the inhabitants of the entire settlement, saving only the ehild, who grows up among them and eventually beeomes their leader. This accounts for a lapse of 20 years and in the second part of the picture O'Brien portrays the role of the young white brave. Destiny brings him in contact with the daughter of the girl of 20 years before, and their conflict of emotions is given full sway before the old romance of their forbears is rekindled in their own hearts. Janet Chandler, who has played less important roles in many pictures, portray's the leading feminine role. Marion Burns, who enacts a role scarcely less important, is a Hollyvvood girl who went to New York and achieved success on the stage before she was able to get into pictures. Others in the cast are Bert Hanlon, well-known comedian, Arthur Pierson, Edmund Breese, Emmett Corrigan, Dorothy Ward and Julia Swayne Gordon.