MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 516, 27 April 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "Salomy Jane," the new Fox romance, featuring Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett and Ralph Bellamy in the principal roles, now at the Majestic Theatre, is a stirring tale of the Californian mining camps, based on the Bret Harte sto-ry, "Salomy Jane's Kiss." Directed by 'Raoul Walsh' and filmed almost entirely in the Bret Harte country of the High Sierras, thq production is said to have many unique features in additicn to its imposing caste. The story hinges on the tempestuous romance between a madcap mountain girl and a Virginia youth who has trailed' his sister's betrayer to the Californian Sierras soon after the Civil War. The colourful'episodes of the Harte tale are presented— the efforts of the girl's other suitors to attract her interest, the meeting with ■the .stranger, .his shooting of his enemy, the hold-up of a stagecoach, the forming of a Vigilante posse, the capture of the stranger, the girl's fruitless endea.vours to save him from hanging, his escape, and the rapdd .series of crises that form the climax|. Not only do Farrell and Miss Bennett portray very different characterisations from the roles they have heretofore presented on the screen, but the realism and colour of the period, togeth'er with the setting amonig. the giant trees of Sequoia National Park, are all said to make the picture something out of the ordinary. Bellamy enacts the part of a typical gamhler of that er.a, and with Eugene Pallette as a stage driver, Irving Pichel as the "menace," Minna Gomhell, Sarah' Padden, Willard Bohertson, Morgan Wallace, and Murdock MaeQuarrie in prominent roles, the supporting cast is a notable one.