MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

; TO-NIGHT. Greta Garbo in an exotic silver wig ■ and black harlequin costume presents a vivid portrayal as the heroine in Pirandello's great play, "As You Desire Me." Th'e screen version of this stage hit.opens to-night at the Ma- . jestic Theatre. I "As Yeu Desire Me" affords Miss 1 Garho a dual charaeter, as it were, later changing - her personality and mood to fit the demure and fragile creature into whose memory she projects her life. It is a story of regeneration done in a cleverly different manner. Indeed, the story is so unsually appealing in a unique treatment, that it holds the interest of a ■genuine life drama. Miss Garbo, if it needs be said, is, as usual, magnificent. Her every inflection, slightest gesture, adds potency to the role ' in which she ob- j viously submerged herself. Miss J Garbo's talents are entirely individual and, in the opinion of this reviewer, the most artistic the screen has produced since its inception. As Zara, the cafe entertainer who returns as thethe missing wife of Count Bruno, distracted war veteran, Miss Garbo eclipses her greatest triumphs. While not as completely sympathetic as some of her previous parts, the Pirandello role offers her the widest latitude in emotionalism sh'e ' has ever played. Melvyn Douglas, one of the screen's newest romantic sensations, plays opposite the glamorous star, enacting the role of the Italian nobleman who accepts the woman with a past as the wife who was torn from him in the devastation of warfare. Erich' Von Stromheim provides sufficient menace as Zara's persecutor, Salter. This role is meant for Von Stroheinx and he devours it with apparently avid delight. Owen Moore is amply welcome as Tony, the painter, who sees in the cafe girl the soul of the woman he painted some ten years before.