MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"Captains Courageous." The power of Rudyard Kipling's saga t of the sea, "Captains Courageous," I attains its greatest force in the dramai tic picture which Metro-Goldwyn- • Mayer has brought to the screen, and which will commence at the Majestic Theatre on Friday. The characters are portrayed with rare artistry, and the medium, of course, provides a scope far beyond that which the writer is permitted. with characteristic vigour, has omitted no detail that would bring into visual and audible P*fy pe genius of the master writer. They bought a Gloucester schooner and her down through the Canal to the Pacific, there to make some of the gorgeous scenes. Others were shot along the Atlantic seaboard from Newfoundland south to the West Indies. Nothing was overlooked. Freddie Bartholomew, as the boy who is swept from the deck of a liner to be rescued by the Gloucester crew of a fishing schooner, performs his first American role, and unquestionably it is equal, if not superior, to anything he has ever done in his distinguished young career. Spencer Tracy scores as Manuel, the Portuguese fisherman, as do Lionel Barrymore as the picturesque Captain Disko, skipper of the schooner T^sL He /fL and T Melvyn Douglas as Freddie s father. In the large supporting cast distinguished work is contributed by Charley Grapewin, Mickey wJu'V"*, Larue - John Carradine, Walter Kingsford, Donald Briggs, Sam McDaniels, Dave Thursby, and numer°thers, as well as the actual crew oo i i . Gl °u ce ste r schooner which was sailed to the Pacific coast for the picas Kiplin S knew and re- !> e a ea * so h® s the picture anri thVh r ! eo i ed lts majestic moods Heht at,)? ? y °J,, calm and storm, sunallvarj Jif ? Players, individu?u^,. a " d collectively, have grasped ahVJ JS C « e P j rts with a remarkable depth of understanding.