MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"Keeper of the Bees."

A wave of renewed enthusiasm for the works of the late Gene StrattonPorter has brought the screening, during the past year, of three of her mos famous novels, and has launched ':■ Girl of the Limberlost," first of them to reach the screen in the new cycle, to a point of popularity which" has been reached by only nine other pictures during the current motion picture season. The latest of the famous Stratton-Porter novels to be presented is "The Keeper of the Bees," filmed by the same company which produce"A Girl of the Limberlost," and it is anticipated that this picture, when it commences its season at the Majestic Theatre today, will be accorded the same enthusiastic reception as was given its predecessor. Neil Hamilton and Betty Furness are in the featured roles. Played against the background of a Callfornian sea-coast community, the picture is said to be a faithful transcription of the story. It is the second time that the novel has been brought to the screen, the silent version many years ago being one of the films which lifted Clara Bow to fame. The play tells of a shell-shocked war veteran who steals away from a Government hospital when he learns that he has but six months to live. He starts to walk to his native city for a final fling with his last resources, b" is diversified by a glimpse of a pretty face which leads him to the little town of Peaceful Bay, where he immediately becomes involved in the tranquil existence of a beekeeper, and discovers romance under extremely mysterious circumstances, which are only solved by the finaie of the gripping plot. The picture is a Monogram production.