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MODERN MYSTERY DRAMA WITH SPECTACULAR SETTINGS. STRO'NC CAST. Mystery and .the modern age, ari amazing dramatic twist, wherein th'e heroine is faced with a choice hetween her own honour or the death, of her brother and a courtfoom sequence that sets a new mark for dramatic suspense fig'ure in "tjnashamed>" the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama which' wil open on Saturday at the Majestic Theatre. . Balayard Yeiler, auth'or of "Within the Law," "The Trial of Mafy Dugan" and other noted stage plays of the mystery . type, wove- many new aiid modern angles into a strange, gripping story, and Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Young, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan, Monroe Owsley, Robert | Warwick, Gertrude Michael and other s j in an elaborate cast enact its charac- , ters under the direction of Harry Beaumont. j The story deals with a millionaire's daughter with too much freedom and. an intense aifection for her younger brother. She becomes infatuated with a fortune-hunter. Her father refuses
the marriage. To force consent, the lovers go to a hotel together and threaten scandal. The brother shoots the lover and goes on trial. Then, in an amazing dramatic climax, the girl sacrifices her reputation — to save him from the executioner. The dramatic highlights include her remarkable story before the jury, the gripping scene hetween the fortunehunter and his honest old father, the deadly quarrel and shooting in the millionaire's mansion, th'e plea of the boy's fiancee to the sister, who refuses to save him, and the final amazing dramatic climax.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 578, 8 July 1933, Page 2
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250UNASHAMED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 578, 8 July 1933, Page 2
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