MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 53, 25 May 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“MARE NOSTRUM” The most sanguine hopes of the management of the Majestic Theatre concerning the success of the wonderful Rex Ingham production, “Mare Nostrum,” have been more than fulfilled. Record audiences have witnessed the film since the opening performance on Friday. A stirriiy? drama of Mediterranean Sea warfare, the chief players are a Spanish sea vaptain (Antonio Moreno) and a beautiful Austrian spy (Alice Terry), attached to the Central Powers’ headquarters in Naples. Jack Lumsdaine is entertaining this week with many meldious songs of his own composition. Weber’s “Oberon” has been selected as an overture by the orchestra, which each evening renders a varied programme of music. A GRAPHIC STORY “The Temptress,” to be screened at the Majestic next Friday is a screen drama from the pen of Vicente Blasco Ibanez, author of “Mare Nostrum.” It tells a gripping story of Paris and South America of a woman with the face of an angel and a soul of ice. Miss Garbo, as the seductive modern Circe, revels in glorious gowns; her beauty glitters with the brilliant hardness of a diamond; and, in the dramatic moments her acting approaches almost sublime heights. It is a graphic story that runs the gamut of the Paris cafes, the Buenos Aires pleasure temples and the stark fastnesses of the Andes where determined men battle against the gigantic forces of nature.

Antonio Moreno, hero of “Mare Nostrum/’ gives a vivid and powerful characterisation of “Robledo,” the engineer battling against the forces of nature.