MAJESTIC THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20152, 23 January 1940, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“6000 ENEMIES” AND ROBERT MONTGOMERY IN “LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN.”

Not .since Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made “The Big House” has such an exciting prison drama reached the screen as "6000 Enemies.” Waiter Pidgeon, whose wo:r\k in “Too Hot To Handle” and “Society Lawyer” brought him to the front by public demand, gets the best dramatic opportunity of his career in “6000 Enemies.” This time he digresses from his usual polished characterisations to step into a dynamic role of a battling district attorney who is framed on a bribery charge and is imprisoned in the State penitentiary, where he comes face to face with the men he has sent there. How he battles his way to their respect, how he fights for his life against a murder plot engineered by an underworld leader, how he saves the life of a prison physician during a prison break, and how he finds love with a girl prisoner whom he himself convicted for a prison term, all moulds into a nerve-tingling drama of desperate men and women. Teaming Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell for the third time, with Robert Benchley featured in one of his funniest characterisations and with Helen Vinson as the “other woman,” the M.G.M. romantic comedy, “Live, Love and Learn” is revived as the associate feature. Placed largely in the colourful atmosphere of Greenwich Village’s Bohemian art colony, “Live, Love and Learn” develops a sparkling story of the married life of a penniless artist and the girl who forsook wealth and society to marry him. The programme commences with the seventh chapter of “The Lone Ranger.”