"AFTER THE BALL."

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 9, 11 January 1934, Page 3

"AFTER THE BALL."

MAJESTIC'S ROMANCE. Of "After the Ball," the new English romantic drama opening a season at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow, the critic of the Sydney "Sun" said: "The film is a polished vehicle for the superb philandering of Basil Rathbone, our South African cousin. Esther Ralston, wife of an attache to the British delegate at a Geneva conference and the woman in the case, fits beautifully into this British picture. Although Rathbone asks if she is Boston or New York, her accent is so little apparent that the question is hardly necessary. Rathbone himself makes the happiest of reappearances among screen players. King's Courier by profession, he is the complete philanderer by inclination. He never meets husbands; in fact, he thinks of writing an essay, ' Husbands I Have Never Met, by one who knows their wives.' So he passes, to the delight of the audience, from one affair to another. ' After the Ball' has been handled with such delicacy that situations that might be dangerous are carried off with absolute ease. Marie Burke adds piquancy to the story.