MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 613, 18 August 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. The brutal, fever-bound, dangerous but withal glamorous existence of life on a rubber plantation in Indo-China is revealed in all its dramatic perspeetive in "Red Dust," 'which opened at the Majestic Theatre last night as a co-starring vehicle for Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Apparently no effort was spared to bring the Wilson Collison stage hit to the screen with all its original power. To put it mildly, this picture has "everything" from sizzling love scenes between Gable and the seductive Miss Harlow, to intensely exciting situations in which the entire cast is involved. Shots of terrific jungle storms and hurricanes that sweep through the little known locale of the story provide many breath-taking thrills. If there ever was a perfectly cast , picture, it is this one. Gable offers a I brilliant perforance as the brutalised _ plantation overseer who repulses a girl of his own sort when an engineer brings his beautiful young. wife to the . _ tropics. Miss Harlow is splendid as j the woman of easy virtue who even- ; tually finds the man she t.really wants : to settle down with, and then has to • put up 1a terrific fi:ght for him. SATURDAY. Alison Skipworth, who won movie fame in the title role of "The Sport- : ing Widow," !is up to new tricks in "A Lady's Rrofession," which comes ! t0 the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. j Roland Young and Sarie Maritza are j co-featured with her, and Kent Tay- ^ lor, Roscoe Karns and Warren Hymer head the supporting cast. The management announce a special engagement of Madame Cora. ( Melvin and Norman Day. Madame i Cora Melvin will be remembered by theatre patrons of Rotorua for her charming interpretation of Nanoy^. j in "The Cingalee," played ;by the Ha- j milton Operatic Society in Rotorua, j Norman Day also appeared in the | Hamilton Operatic Society's production of "The Cingalee" in Rotorua, taking the juvenile lead, "Harry V ereker." This production was played before Sir Joseph Ward and suite.