MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 760, 5 September 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

( SINS OF THE FATHERS** The current programme at the Majestic Theatre will be presented for the last time this evening. This includes the talkie, “This Is Heaven.” starring Vilma Hanky, and several short talkie features. From tomorrow the Majestic will | present the powerful drama, "tfins of i the Fathers.” starring the noted actor, Emil Jannings. The man who proved Emil Jan- j ! nings’s undoing in "The Patriot” docs ] j it again in “Sins of the Fathers.” which j is Jan rungs’s lat- j est Paramount j starring picture. 1 The man is Harry j Cording. Cording, as the j mistreated Palace j guard in “The Patriot.” finally j brought revengej upon his tor- j mentor. Tsar Paul j I. of Russia (Jan- j nings) by strang- i ling him. though .. . A he does not go to that extent to Ijring tragedv to Janmngs in his latest film. Jannings portrays the role of a German - A merican. who becomes the richest bootlegger in America when prohibition causes him to give up his beer garden. Cording portrays the role of a “hijacker, ' who. in order to get even with Jannings for an imagined grievance, lias the police put on Jannings’s trail. The result brings the starkest kind of tragedy to Jannings, and movie-goers who see this latest characterisation by the star axe bound to he thrilled by tense drama. Ruth Chatterton, prominent stage star, has the chief feminine role opposite Jannings in his new film. witn Barry Norton, Matthew Betz, Zasu Pitts and others in the supporting cast. A brilliant music score, rendered by a concert orchestra of eighty pieces, interprets the scenes and human interest of this Paramount sound picture. Emil Jannings. the star, in one part of the picture is heard vociferously singing a German operatic number. The music score is perfectly synchronised with every scene and bit of action in the picture, and its reproduction in the theatre is flawless. The new programme will also include a number of short talking and singing features.