"MADAM SATAN."

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20382, 31 October 1931, Page 20

"MADAM SATAN."

A REMARKABLE TALKIE. A striking example of the exploitation of new avenues of screen fare is given in "Madam Satan," a talkio which was screened privately yesterday morning, and which will bo offered to the Cliristchurch public at the Majestic Theatre next week. Reginald Denny, Kay Johnson, Roland Young, and Lillian Roth aro the principals. The tale opens in a conventional Vay, on the lines of tho husband who is "not understood" by his wife. He arrives home from a night's revelry in tho oarly hours of the morning; there is a heated argument, and he walks out. Jamcß Wade, a friend, gives a huge masked party on board a Zeppelin nioorod to a tower. The guests arrive in weird and wonderful costumes, and a macabro dance of tho devil by the whole company, with some specialty stunts by some of their number, opens the evening. Tho big attraction is an auction sale for a dance, "the love waltz," with the six most beautiful women present. The wife is among tho guests, attired as "Madam Satan," and, not knowing who sho is, her husband beats all other bidders and secures a dance with her. Tho fun is at its height when a thun-'erstorm comes up, the Zoppelin breaks adrift, and nearly all the guests escape by means of parachutes. Madam reveals her identity to her husband, and there is an argument as to who should take the last parachuto. All the while the big airship is gradually going to pieces, and the flnshoij of lightning reveal hundreds of peoplo struggling among twisted struts, frantically fighting for ■ parachutes. Eventually all land Rafely, in spite of the fact that tho ship has broken in half whilo Brookes is still on board, and the ending may be left to tho imagination of those who have yet to see it. A well-trained chorus, some charming songs, remarkably good dancing, and comedy of the oasy, dry type, as possessed by Poland "Young, mako "Madam Satan" a picture to be remembered.