MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 25, 21 April 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“EVE’S LOVER” Another fine programme, a worthy successor to “Don Juan,” and which will appeal even to the most fastidious, is to be shown at the Majestic Theatre on Friday. The main feature is “Eve’s Lover,” in which Irene Rich appears as a millionaire business woman. Eve Burnside. Her proud independence and her powerful personality have made her, at 30, a dominating influence in the steel industry. The story tells of how romance, in the shape of the handsome Baron Geralde Maddox, batters down the reserves of this woman, who had heretofore scarned all soft sentiment. To escape imprisonment for passing a bad cheque, he courts and marries her. In the awakening of her first love, Eve is left at his mercy, because she loves him.with all of the pent-up emotion of her barren life. But then, as she learns of his unworthy past, she becomes disillusioned and returns to business. How the baron, who has grown to love her Worthily saves her business with startling courage when she is faced with financial ruin forms the climax of the picture. Bert Lytell appears opposite Miss Rich in the ro!e of the baron, and others in the cast are Clara Bow, as a tigerish little flame of the baron’s bachelor days, and Willard Louis, the star “Babbit” east, as a treacherous business rival of PJve’s who, in spite of his villainies, is not without his ludicrously funny side. The All Soloists Orchestra will render a delightful musical programme.