MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES ‘‘The Valiant,” an all-talking drama, comes to the Majestic Theatre tomorrow. Paul Muni is starred, supported by Johnny Mack Brown, Marguerite Churchill and Henry KcUker. The story opens dramatically. There is a shot, a door opens, and a man steals out, and in the next scene gives himself up to the police, is tried, condemned and sentenced to death. In the meantime, in Ohio, Mrs. Douglas, a. dear old lady, becomes troubled over the likeness of the man to her son, Joe Douglas, who had left homo some 15 years before. Her daughter goes to New York, and is able to see the condemned man, but as her brother ioe left, home when she was a child, she cannot be sure of his identity. It is clear that he is Douglas, but the girl is convinced that the murderer is not her brother and her mother is happy. What happens is that the condemned man learns that his visitor is his sister,, but keeps tho secret of his own identity, and sends his sister away, secure in the knowledge (apparently) that her brother is not a murderer. The part of the brother is taken by Paul Muni, who gives a most realistic interpretation of his part, and whose work in the dialogue goes a long way to make the picture a success. He is well supported by Marguerite Churchill, John Mack Brown., Edith Yorke and De Witt Jennings. “Here is an artfully done film, full of charm, specially designed fof Christmas screenings. It is a simple story of Yuletide, yet decidedly different from the ordinary run of holiday pictures. A boy and girl romance which has its beginning and ending on Christmas Day. As a talking picture it ranks with, the best so far made. Ingenuity and cleverness in direction are manifest throughout.” So wrote the critic of the “Film Daily” of “Forget Me Not,” an alltalking romance in song sound and dance, also to be shown this evening. •Forget Me Not” is an old world romance of two youngsters at Christmas time in a tiny German village in 1754, with many of the scenes laid in a toymaker's shop, where, as a climax, the dolls come to life and stage the performance of a travelling troupe of French actors. For the children at the afternoon sessions there will also be shown a special film entitled “The Circus Kid,” starring the little boy actor, Frankie Darro.