MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 589, 15 February 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“BLINDFOLD” THIS EVENING Another excellent programme of music and pictures will be presented at the popular Majestic Theatre this evening. “Blindfold,’* which is the chief pictorial attraction, divides its interest four ways. There is a lone policeman who doggedly pursues his duties in spite of legal and criminal obstacles; several Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type characters; a highly dramatic amnesia sequence and a love theme, of course. Officer Bob Kelly and Mary Brewer have had an understanding. When the story opens Mary is preparing dinner as a celebration of their ©ngagc m e n t. Buddy, the brother of Mary, being more or less in the way, is sent out for ice cream. He mi ns into some thieves in the act of robbing a store and is killed. The shot takes Kelly and Mary to the scene, which becomes a dramatic one. Mary bears up with difficulty, but Kelly throws his energies into the capture of the recalcitrants. He catches the killer after a week’s hunt, but loses his case and repuitation in a “fixed” court. Undaunted, he continues his chase, gets into a. mixLip with crooks and is bludgeoned with a revolver Mary, who followed him ■to the rendezvous, sees her lover crumple under tlie blow'. Her mind snaps.. While in her amnesic condition she is ma.de into a dupe by three very clever Hr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde crooks. The rest of the story deals with her escapades as a beautiful and fashionably dressed coquette and decoy for jewellers, and the determined efforts of her cop-lover to unravel the tangled mystery of the story, capture his men and redeem his reputation. In the role of Policeman Kelly is George O’Brien, cast in a character that fits like a glove. Bary Brower is played by that talented young actress. Hois Moran. It is her first opportunity to go the limit in a sophisticated part since “Sharp Shooters.” The remaining pictures include another fine Ufa gem, “Xature Wizardry,” a comedy, a Majestic Magazine, and Music Master Series N». 1 (Schumann). On the musical side of the programme is an orchestral interlude by Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra.. “The Damnation of Faust” (Berlioz) and the beautiful solo, “One Fine Hay” (from “Madame Butterfly”) sung by Miss Kate Campion in a special stage setting. The death of Hermann Sudermann, German novelist, recalls* the fact that one of his most popular stories, “Stephen Troniholt’s Wife,” renamed “The Wonder of Women,” is shortly to go into production at the Metro - Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Greta Garbo is scheduled to play the starring role. Many of Sudermanns stories have served as screen vehicles, “Flesh and the Devil” achieving exceptional sue-