AMUSEMENTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 617, 23 August 1933, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MA JESTIC THEATRE TO-NIGHT. Following the completion of his role in Ernst Lubltsch's production, "Trouble in Paradise," which. is now showing in the Majestic Theatre, Herbert Marshall returned to his native lEngland- to resume his stage eareer in London. Marshall, featured with Miriam Hopkins, Ea-y Francis, Charles Ruggles and Edward Everett Horton, in "Trouble in Paradise," is} under contract to play in London until May, 1933. And, although producers anxious to take advantage of his new popularity tried to persuade him- to remain in" Hollywood, he was unable to do so. However, when the contract expires he will return to Hollywood. In "Trouble in Paradise"1 Marshall is cast as a super-crook, whose activities are douhled -after he enters into a professional and romantic union with Miss Hopkins, his feminine counterpart. But the attempt of the pair ito swindle Miss Francis, a widow with a fortune as large as the wiar deht, leads to humorous complications when his interest in the prospective victim develops into something re_ sembling love. THURSDAY. The conflictin'g emotions of an unrealised motherhood, and .the inherent sense of fair play that makes her drive away the man who had absorbed her life, give Constance Bennett the crowning opportunity of her career as a. dramatic actress in "Roekabye," which opens on Thursday at the Majestic Th'eatre. Miss Bennett is supported in this R.KO Radio picture by Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas, Clare Blandick, Jobyna Howland and others of foremost screen prominence. The film, as directed by George Cukor, presents a new Constance Bennett. As Judy Carroll, madcap actress, who escapes one defamation only to be plunged into another, whose life is a series of startling adventures and amazing escapades, Miss Bennett blazes forth as a scintillant vibrant personality.