MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 647, 26 April 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“REVENGE” “Revenge,” the new Dolores Del Rio starring vehicle, to be shown , this evening at the Majestic Theatre, in the opinion of Director Edwin Carewe, presents Miss Del Rio in tho type of role which would snell failure for the

average leading lady. Yet to the Mexican player it offers the greatest opportunities she has known. Finis Fox, who wrote the scenarios for “Resurrection” and “Rain o n a,” while searching for a likely plot for Miss 13cl Rio, found a little story in a book called “The Bear Tamer’s Daughter.” The story dealt with the life of an untamed, wild-spirited gipsy girl, the daughter of the Rumanian King of the Gipsy bear-tamers. “Revenge” is heralded as probably the most unusual moving picture of the new season. It is filled with thrills, dramatic moments. intrigue, love and romance. Scenes showing as many as one hundred bears, some wild and others tame, are common throughout the early part of the picture. Miss Del Rio has one of the greatest parts ever offered to her in the colourful gipsy girl who despised men and bears because they became as docile as lambs under her fiery dominence. Miss Del Rio has a cast of •wellknown players appearing in her support in “Revenge.” Leroy Mason is Jorga. Director Carewe believes Mason’s interpreation of this part -will make him one of the most soughtafter leading men in pictures. Jose Crespo, the Spanish film star is the rival lover and Rita Carewe the producer’s daughter, popular in her own right, enacts the jealous Tina, hated enemy of Rasclia. James Marcus heads the remaining, cast which includes hundreds of colourfully garbed gipsies. Another excellent programme will be presented in support of “Revenge.” The chief atraction will be the personal appearance of that brilliant pianist, Margot St. Lawrence Toner, who will play “Waltz in E Minor” (Chopin), and Dubussy’s “Tonccata.” There will also be a Majestic Magazine <ind a comedy. The whole programme will be accompanied by Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic traSUBURBAN THEATRES The Prince Edward Theatre will show this evening “Adoration” (Billie Dove”) and “Stolen Pleasures” (Helene Chadwick). At the Capitol Theatre, Dominion Road, the pictures are “The Spy” (allstar cast) and “Homesick” (Sammy Cohen). The Empire Theatre, Dominion Road, will screen “Red Wine” (Conrad Xagel) and “Rinty of the Desert” (Rin-Tin-Tin). The Edendale Theatre is to show “Red Hot Speed” (Reginald Denny) and “Someone to Love” (Charles Rogers). At the Grey Lynn Cinema the pictures are “Romance of the Underworld” (Mary Astor) and “The Silver Lining” (Marie Ault and Eve Gray).

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