GIRLS-BEWARE!!

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 15

GIRLS-BEWARE!!

COMEDY AT MAJESTIC DOLORES DEL RIO ON BIG DOUBLE BILL Her daily work developing in her a cynical outlook on the general problems of matrimony, the divorce attorney’s secretary gave her young sister excellent advice that was promptly ignored. Dear, sober-minded Myra knew that married men were, ' for single girls, fellows to be ignored in the same w r ay that lepers. are ignored —to Myra they boded no good. The plot of “Beware of Married Men,” the Warner Brothers’ comedy feature, set the house rocking at the Majestic Theatre last evening. Having in it something of the quality of an Eighteenth Century comedy of manners, the story is carefully wrought, and develops easily to a slashing comedy climax. Leonard Gilbert, attorney, ’ known in his homo town as the “great divider,” because of the extent and success of his divorce actions, has a pretty mellow kind of customer in his office at times. One of these, catching the eye of secretary Myra’s susceptible sister, invites her to call on him at his country house one evening. Myra, knowing him to be dangerous, locks her sister up, and in frumpish disguise keeps the appointment, telling her horrified host that she represents the Girls’ Welfare League; but from then on the play swings to several diverting quarters, but in the finish everybody is happy. A rattling good plot, handled with resource and subtelty, it gave Irene Rich excellent opportunities in a difficult part. The remainder of the cast, Clyde Cook, Richard Tucker, Myrna and Audrey Ferris, were adequate in all they attempted. A double-decker programme, another big thrill, although in more sombre vein, is also presented. The star is none less than the beautiful Dolores Del Rio, whose soft charm and flashing eyes have enslaved the film world.

“No Other Woman,” the film in which she stars, is tragic but restrained. The agony is not piled on, and many of the most poignant situations are merely sketched in, and responsibility for their further development is left with the actress. But how she seizes each opportunity, and with what cunning art she is able to win an audience to her side. She has not yet appeared in a film that gives the world a oetter chance to judge her genius.

It has all the elements of great tragedy and ylet there are moments of comedy which tend to throw the darker patches into higher relief. Dolores plays the part of Carmelita, a Spanish heiress who is spending a holiday at Biarritz. . There she meets a soul mate from her own country, and the marriage is arranged. A few days before the ceremony, a school friend of the prospective bridegroom meets Carmelita, and liking the immensity of her fortune, sets about an ardent and unscrupulous courtship. He marries the girl, throws money to the winds, brings his bride to misery, and finally shoots her —but stay the tears—not fatally. The inconvenient husband kills himself by falling from a balcony—thence forward peace and marital content for Carmelita. In the Majestic News there is a marvellous glimpse of General Nobile’s rescue from the Arctic regions. The pictures are taken from the rescuing airplane, and furnish astounding records of a great feat. A New Zealand Government Publicity film shows scenery about New Plymouth, and attendant Mount Egmont. The orchestra, under Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh, played appropriate incidental music.