MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1024, 15 July 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “GREEN GODDESS” Out of that land of mystery, bounded on ono side by the terrible heights of the Himalaya Mountains and on the other by the vast roaches of the Mongolian plains, comes the story of “The Green Goddess,” a Warner Brothers all-talking Vitaphone production, starring George Arliss, now in its last days at the Majestic. It is a land from which fow travellers return, a country where anything can and does happen, a part of the world so little known that thousands of square miles are yet uncharted on any map. Therefore, this story is not an impossible melodrama of this wild country. It is a littie slico out of the weird and mysterious hajipenings of Northern India and Southern Tibet, where divinities far more strange than “The Green Goddess” are worshipped and offered human sacrifices. Although the lines and songs of Robert Burns are universally known, tho talking screen extols their virtues for the first time in the British Dominions screen operetta, “The Loves oi Robert Burns,” which is coming on Thursday. This picture limns the high-lights of tho life of the great Scottish poet; it offers, at the same time, a comprehensive presentation of his character, not extenuating his weaknesses,' but picturing also his humanity, his manliness (as ln his act of reparation to Jean Armour), his filial devotion, and, above all, his glorious lyrical gifts which have made his poetry a treasured possession the world over, gifts that will reincarnate his memory centuries hence. The story deals with an episode from tlio life of Burns. He meets and loves Jean Armour, compromises her and offers marriage, which her father refuses. Jle then decides to go to the West Indies, and declares his love to Maiy Campbell. Just before he is to sail she dies. Thon comes the news that his first book of poems is published. He becomes famous in Edinburgh and roturns to marry Jean. He still dreams of Mary and shortly afterward dies, LECTURE ON AMERICA A free public lecture on the subject, “Political Parties in America,” will be delivered by Professor Mander, who was formerly director of the W.E.A. in Auckland, in the University Hall tomorrow evening. Professor Mander has been teaching in a New York University for the past two or three years, and has had ample opportunity to study this subject.