MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 662, 14 October 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGH.T. ' DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME ' * "The Medicine Man" is a British picture, in which the principal parts ■ are played by Claude Allister, wellknown for his parts in many Hollywood productions, and Frank Pettingell, a Lancashire comedian hailing from Liverpool. The picture opens at the Majestie Theatre to-night. The Honourable Freddie Wiltshire (played by Claude Allister, of course) is Tn his usual state of impecuniosity. In an effort to raise the wind, he foolishly promises to impersonate his friend, Dr. Primus, for a few hours. These few hours turn out to be exceedingly hectic. Pirst, he is called upon to cure one or two minor ailments, which he does to the best of his ability, but without much success. Then he is called to a nearby police station to certify a man as drunk. This man turns out to be his prospective father-in-law, who has always posed as a temperance worker. Even the thrills of getting this old humbug to walk the chalk line, and stumble over the words "truly moral" do not finish his hours' excitement, for he is captured by a gang of bandits to tend one of their wounded. SECOND PEATURE "Called Back," which opens at the ! Majestie Theatre to-night, is a highly dramatic story of intrigue and mystery, which changes its locale from London to Spain and again to Russia and Siberia. It is interpreted by an exceptionally strong cast, consisting, in the main, of stars of the London stage. At least four of the cast — Franklin Dyall, Lester Matthews, Ian Fleming, and Dorothy Boyd are all of such eminence in the theatre world that their names are in electric lights outside any theatre in which they play. The principal roles are played by Franklin Dyall and Lester Matthews. The former plays the part of a Spaniard who has been an ardent revol'utionary all his life and who eventually pays the price for trying fo overthrow the power of -the Bolsheviks in Russia. During his life in London he has been guilty of mis- ' appropriating the ' trust f und of his two wards and murders one when the ■ situation is in danger of exposure. Dorothy Boyd is the remaining ward and the shock of witnessing the murder of her brother causes her to lose ' her memory. When Lester Matthews meets her lie realises that something in her unremembered past has caused the mental disturbance and makes it his job to find out just what it was. His quest leads him to Siberia, and there he hears a strange tale, and hears it under stranger curcumstancies. The clue to the mystery is well held and not divulged until the drama is re-acted in retrospect.