PROSPERITY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 727, 30 December 1933, Page 2

PROSPERITY

POLLY MORAN AND MARIE DRESSLER IN GOOD COMEDY Most motion pictures end with a wedding — (but Marie Dressler, aided and abetted by Polly M'oran, reverses the usual order and starts in with a wedding in "Prosperity," opening on Saturday at the Majestic Theatre. That is, they get everything ready for a wedding| — land then there's an •hilarious fight which puts the kibosh on the ceremony and sends the bride land groom scuttling away to the mayor to be married in peace and quiet, away from the ding dong battle between the prospective mothers-in- • law. "Prosperity" shows the popular comediennes as mothers-in-law who try ' to regulate the lives of their married children and battle vigorously between themselves in the process. The locale is a small town, and the hilarious complications come fast and furious in the action of the co.m:edy romance.

(GRpEAJT HIST/ORICAL PICTURE HEADED BY MR. GEORGE ARLISS AN O.UTSTANpING CAST . THere is an outstanding cast for "Alexander Hamilton" is justly acclaimed as one of the great pictures , of the year and which' will opeii at I the Majestic Theatre on January 3, ' 4 and 5. The cast, which is headed by Mr. George Arliss, is as follows: — Alexander Hamilton ... George Arliss Mrs. Hamilton Doris Kenyon Senator T. Roberts .. Dudley Digges George Washin|g(ton .. Alan Mowbray Mr. Reynolds Ralif Harolde • Mrs- Reynolds June Collyer Chief Justice Jay .. Charles Middleton Thomas Jefferson .. .. Montague Love ( General P. Schiuyler .. Lionel Belmore James Monroe .. .. Morgan Wallace Martha Washington Gwendolin Logan Oount Talleyrand .. John T. Murray Alexander Hamilton, as the First ■Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, is heseiged with opposition when he attempts to have his "Assumption Bill" passed to establish the credit of th'e country. However, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Senator Roherts are ' anxious to take advantage of Hatnil- • ton's influence with Wiashington in placing- the new national capital in the South. Hamilton, in his shrewd

way, trades them his support of the capital on the Potomac in exchange , for their support of his Assumption { Bill. Senator Roherts ohjects ,and see^•retly plots with Reynolds, a mal- | content, for Hamilton's ruin. , W;hile his wife, Betsy, is in Engj land visitinig a sick sister, Hamilton ! is visited late one night by a beau- , tiful woman, who claims her hushand • is cruel to her. She must have funds , to return to her father. Hamilton • lends her the money and is enticed into ,an affair with her. La-ter, after his wife's return, Hamilton, attending a great ball, is approached by Reynolds who asks for money be- ' cause of Hamilton's affair with his i wife, Mrs. Reynolds. Hamilton realisI es he is trapped and agrees to send the money- : IMeantime, having listened to Roherts' ch'arges that Hamilton has been using Treasury money to silence Reynolds, Jefferson, Monroe and Roherts j visit Hamilton. He tells them candidly j of his affair and they all respect his I confidence with the exception of Ro- | berts, who repeats the story before j Mrs. Hamilton and her father. Hamj iltoni f,a.ced with defeat for his As- : sumption Bill or the publication of ! his complete defence to the charges, | which miust hurt his family, defies Roberts and tells his story to the publie. : OBetsy is on the verge of leaving Hamilton, but hy a touching giesture /with a flower he wins her understanding of his actions and hef f-orgive-ness. But their reunioni is marred by the fact that there has been no news from the capital of the f,a.te of his '.Assumption Bill. He realises that despite his sacrifice of reputation he has probably lost. Then it is announced that Pfesident 'Wiashington and other s are at his door, bringing word •of the passage of the Bill and £n expression of confidence in him.

I The first shop in London for the sale of cigarettes was opened in 1863 — only 70 years ago. The demand for "paper cigars," ais some people called them, was quite limiteff jn the sixties. Meh mostly smoked pipes and ladies hadn't learned to smoke at all! To-day the world consumes hundreds of millions of cigarettes annually. It is worthy of note, by the way that the up-to-date cigarette smoker "rolls his own." It no.t only comes a lot cheaper, but smokes rolled fresh, just as you*want them, are always moist and fragrant, whereas the packet goods, (even the best bra-nds) soon gp dry and lose flavour and appeal. So if you would have' a really enjoyable cigarette join the "Roll-youf-own" brigade. As for tobacco you can't improve o.n the New Zealand — Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). They are toasted. Consequently there's very : little nicotine in them, tand they may be smoked with perfect safety. Even ! the "tobaceo-glutton" is immune from harm. And for flavour and orama you simply can't match them.