MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD" “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” a Warner Bros, picture filmed entirely in technicolour, is enjoying a “capacity” season at the Majestic Theatre. Errol Flynn, the young Irishman who so capably filled the dashing roles in "Captain Blood” and "The Charge of the Light Brigade,” is a made-to-order Robin Hood in the title role of the film. The familiar tale, descended from English ballads of centuries ago, was seen on the screen some fifteen years ago when the agile Douglas Fairbanks, sen., played the title role. The present Warner Bros, version goes deeper into untold escapades and exploits of the gay rascal who plundered the rich to feed the poor. Olivia de Havilland plays Maid Marian. Other important roles are filled by Claude Rains as the treacherous Prince John, Basil Rathbone as villainous Sir Guy, lan Hunter as King Richard, and Patrie Knowles and Alan Hale as outlaws. It is, of course, a famous story, filled with breathless adventure, mighty men and mightier deeds, and lovely ladies who are supposed to have spent most of their days in ivory towers embroidering and weaving. Robin Hood lived, according to the legends, at the end of a century of adventure that has no equal in history or fiction. Richard, the Lion Hearted, was King of England but was absent for long periods while he led his knights to the Crusades, leaving his villainous brother John in charge of his throne. It was the era of the joust, of the lance and sword and the bow and arrow, or rough fun and rougher warfare, of men who fought magnificently. loved dangerously, lied generously and ate and drank prodigiously. A young deer was scarcely enough for a meal for a real man, and the ;andwich was still unknown.