MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 November 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

^ TO-DAY AND TO-NIGIIT. d Hair-raising scer.es never before I shown on the motion picture screen | are a part of "The Big Cage," the J Universal circns drema which opens I at the Majestic Thc atre to-day. 1 i This thrilling screen play presents 6 in its featured role Clyde Beatty, | greatest of wild aninial trainers, and | cofistitutes virtually a story of Beat- * ty's life, as detailed -in the forthcom- | • dng hook by Edward Anthony and | himself. In one sequence he is seen I in a barred arena with 43 lions and | tigers, duplicating the perfownance | Kvhich has made him the premier atI itraetion of the circus world. Through- | out its filming the picture was k fraught wtih actual and ever-present | dangtr. Millions have seen Beatty 1 as the star of Barnum and Bailey's | circus, but the camera and the lights | ! added a new thrill to Beatty in the filming. | ! The greater part of the story of | ' "The Big Cage" is laid in the winter 5 quarters of a circus, with Beatty, l against the advice of his associates, s , intent on perfecting an "ac't" which 1 j ' will present both lions and tigers in S the same arena — a feat which has \ never been accom.plished by any other I trainer. Eventually he succeeds, though only after tragedy has enter- \ i ed the igreat cage in the training s quarters.