MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 690, 16 November 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Ever endeavouring- to improve the quality of audible film entertainment, producers have now enlisted the services of the world's greatest living tenor, Richard Tauber, who enriches the-screen with a golden voice and a riadiant personality that delights. To present this monarch of music who climbed to the majestic throne of fame almost in the twinkling of an eye, to screen audienoes, a simple rornance, adapted from Tauber's own life, set in the Bavarian Alps, hias been chosen. In this screen debut, Tauber the actor is delightfully human : Tauber th'e tenor is magnificent. The melodious 'beauty of the notes, the evenness of his production, the velvety quality of his upper register, his unfailing sense of rhythm, and the fluency of his phrasing make it an unalloyed joy to listen to him. The story moves from the Bavarian Alps to Berlin, there to -reveal flashes of real life behind the scenes at the opera; there are pretty movements of a love story; there is beauty, drama, touches of comedy, but alwiays the dominant thing is the voice of Tauber. Singing "O, Lord our God," in the church, singing the Mozart aria from an audition, then th'e rornance from "Martha," and comp'ositions of his own, Tauber's glorious tenor is preeminent. It fiows rfom his throat in an endless stream of rare delights. Such is "End of the Rainbow," Richard Tauber's screen triumph, one of the most moving of human dramas ever written to reveal the genius and life of a giant among men.