CLARA BOW

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 7

CLARA BOW

DISCARDS FLAPPER ROLE IN SOUL-SEARCHING. NOYEL. DRAMATIC PORTRAYAL. The rising eurtain at the Majestie Theatre next Monday will reveal a new Glara Bow. Not the "It Girl of the Screen," or "That Red Head," or "That Collegiate Hoyden," or "The Brooklyn," or even "The Living Symbol of the Jazz Age." Hei^ new film is "Gall Her Savage," the F'ox production of Tiffany Thayer's novel of t'he same name. • ;Well over a year has elap'sed since the famous Bow personality ha.s been seen on the screen, a year of refreshing rest and study during which time the famous star stored up the needed

energy and vital forces which she is said to release in full flood during the unfolding of this stirring romantic drama. In the main, the loveliness of features and expressions that has endeared Miss Bow to the puhlie remains, but to replace the hoydenisms and madcap flapper ways that marked her earlier screen portrayals she is reported to possess a new self-control, a poise and dignity that marks that picture as the first triumph of her maturing art. The plot of the picture relates, briefly, the dramatic struggle of an impulsive girl to control the halfsavage temper whieh is her fiery birthright, and thereby find the one true love she craves. From a Texas ranch, where she grew up in the wild ways of the open, Clara is expelled to a Chicago finishing school by her wealthy but exasperated father. Her 'growing intimacy with a handsome half-hreed, portrayed by Gilbert Roland, is given as the reason by her stern parent, hut in roahty his action comes as an admission of weakness on his part to ) control his headstrong daughter. In Chicago, she enters ladventure ! af'ter adventure until an unwise mar- ' riage leads her to the brink of com-