MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 637, 15 September 1933, Page 2

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NUGiHT. "Guilty as Charged," a murder story with a comedy twist to it, opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night, with lEdmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Richard Arlen in the starr.ing roles. Lowe and McLaglen, the battling pals of "What Price Glory," "The Cockeyed World," and "Women of all Nations," have the same type of role in "Guilty as Charged" — but they are not in the arrny^ this time.' Lowe is cast as a police reporter and McLaglen as a detective. The picture opens with the murder of a woman. ' The audience sees the crime and the man who commits it. But Lowe and McLaglen called in on the case don't. The many bungles they make before finally straightening matters up reduce many comedy situations. Arlen is -in the role of a young man, intimate with the slain woman before her death, who faces death by hanging, as a mass of circumstantial evidence piles up against him. Adr-ienne Ames, socialite who turned to the movies, has the leading feminine role. "Guilty as Charged" will be supported by an excellent programme, including an Irish' comedy, "Singing Plumber," featuijing Donald Novlis, the radio star.