MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 665, 18 October 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND T O-NIGHT. "Madame Butterfly," one of the most treasured romances of all time, now made into a picture, with a back- ' ground of beautiful music from Puccini's Grand Opera, opens at the Ma.jestic Thea.tre to-night with a cast ■h'eaded by Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel and 1 Helen Jerome Eddy. M,iss Sidney, playing th,e title role ' — a -high-born Japanese girl — malccs her appearance in an entirely new type of charaeterisation. Eyebrows and eyes slanted, hair lacquered, her s.eps mincing, draped from head to fcot in- colourful oriental robes, she is anyth'ing uut the girl of "Tha Miracle Man," "Merrily We go to Hell," or other of her recent screen successes. It is th'e story of the. beaufceous Japanese girl's romance • with- the I American naval officer witli which "Madame Butterfly" concerns itself. Grant, as the officer stationed in the island land, rneets and falls in love with her. Then, discovery that under Japanese law, divorce is almost automiatic when a husband leaves iiis wife, he decides .to marry her and enjoy th'e happiness of life with her while he remains in the country. As for what is to follow, he does not coneern nimself. Ultimately he is sent baek to the United States. Too deeply touc'ned to tell her the truth' about his plans, he promises to recurn when "the robins nest again."' And the girl takes him at his word; pi epares to awa.t his retuirn. ' He does return, years later, but under entirely different circumstances — circumstances which hrings the picture to a touching dramatic climax.