MAJESTIC THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11548, 27 January 1932, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE

DOUBLE FEATURE BILL. Tlie niiiiiagement ul the Alajcstie Theatre is catering well i or moving picture patron* during the current week. There is a inov. diverting comedy entitled "Rig Bov,'’ with Al .1 olsou iii the lead, and very efficient support. .Most ol the entertainment is. however, provided by “The May of All -Men." with Noah licery, Douglas Fairbanks jnr., Dorothy Revier. Robert E ties on, and other noted artists in' the cast. “The Way of All Men” commences with the romance of a young broker’s clerk and an actress. Hie girl has faith in the boy in spite ol the fact that he has just been discharged from his position, and she decides to leave her show in order to avoid having to leave for another part of the country. It is not long, however, before she discovers that she has been deceived and that Bill, having found the knowledge of his previov.s employer's business of value to a. rival broker, lias become prosperous and is engaged to the daughter of his .new chief. A great storm breaks over the town, which is situated on the banks or a large river, and the water breaks through the levees, the town being threatened with a disastrous flood. Just before the storm. Bill his employer, Fraser, his previous employer, Swift, and several other people, including Poppy the actress, who has been deserted by Bill, and a crazy evangelist, are all in Stratton's cafe, which is below the level of the street and under a bank. With death staring them in the face they are all converted by the evangelist, but directly the flood is over they slip hack into their old methods of life which are scarcely of a lofty order. With the reunion of the two lovers the story ends. The box plans at al Tnitorsul) and Bayly's.