MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “MASQUERADE”

Although Louis J. Vance wrote “The Brass Bowl” many years ago, the story is delightful as ever; a fact proved by the enthusiastic reception given to its all-talking screen version “Masquerade,” at the Majestic Theatre. The Fox Movietone picture is packed full of romance and adventure treated in an entertaining manner and with splendid work on the part of the players and the director. Alan Birmingham distinguishes himself in the difficult dual role of the crook and the millionaire, and Leila Hyams is a dainty and daring heroine. Farrell Macdonald is excellent as the slow-witted cop and Clyde Cook and Arnold Lucy also make their parts prominent. Russell J. Birdwell has done an excellent job of directing. The picture is an unquestionable hit. “Masquerade” is supported by an excellent selection of shorter talkies. A particularly fine cast of wellknown and popular players has been gathered to interpret this story. Edmund Lowe and Warner Baxter, who scored such a success in the talkie, “In Old Arizona,” are reunited in this film. Mary Duncan is also featured, and enacts a triple role —as a modest refined wife, as a “woman of affairs.” and finally as a modern young woman of conventional tastes. In addition to the three players already mentioned, the cast includes Natalie Moorhead, Earl Foxe. Florence Lake. Sylvie Sydney, Nigel de Brulier and Dolores Johnson. So perfectly is the mystery maintained in “Through Different Eyes” that until the final scenes the solution remains in doubt.