MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 515, 26 April 1933, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE

cTO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT. Theatre-goiers have ai real treat in store for them at the Majestie Theatre . 'Salomy Jane," the Ch-arles FarrellJoan Bennett vehicle which opened on Monday,1 is the first film to capture the cqlourful but elusive spirit of the California mininig camps' in the goldrush era, and dt does- it in a way that makes the picture Iinger in one memory. All the vividness and bracing atmosphere of Bret Harte's immortal Salomy Jane's Kliss," from which the production is taken, are retained in this delightful Fox Films offering, p-roduced in the "Giant Forest" of Sequoia National Park in the California Sierras. Miss Bennett in thie. title role of a madcap mountain girl, and Farrell as the grim-purposed "Stranger," both igio far afield from their usual character'sations, but do such notable work that their niany followers will be de.jghted with their portrayals. Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Irying Pichel, Sarah Padden, Willard Robertson, Morgan Wiallace and Murdock MacQuarrie enaet the isupporting parts brilliantly, and Raoul Walsh can take several bows for his skilful direction. Altogether "Sialomy" i's a real achievenrent for everyone concerned, and well deserves the unusual attention it has drawn in lits ishowings elsewhere.