ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1934, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

“THE SILENCE OF DEAN MAIT* LAND,” MAJESTIC, TO NIGHT

Drama- is the stirring of Cinesound’s third screen epic, “The Silence of Doan Maitland,” drama, tensely human and vividly real. Delicately woven around a man —of the church —and a youthful indiscretion tNit sent his best friend to prison for 20 voars, for a crime he did not do, and sentenced himself to a life of torturing memory and hypocriscy. The. story ot “The Dean’ ’opens twenty years ago, in the peaceful English seaside village of Glenville. There we find Cyril Maitland. a young theological student, fighting against the spell of the alluring charms of Alma Lee, the beautiful daughter of a village fisherman. He sinned —and you will hate him for it, yet the pathos of his life will later reach the innermost depths of your heart. The girl’s father, in revenge of his daughter’s honour, attacks Maitland; in the struggle the older man is accidentally killed, and the horrorstricken cleric flies from the spot, unwittingly leaving behind strong c'.rcumstant’al evidence that was later to send his best friend, Dr. Everard, to prison for 20 years. Why didn t Maitland confess is your natural question, and Aye hasten to tell that after days and nights of mental agony during his friend’s trial, he did sensationally arrive in court just as Everard is about to be sentenced. “Stop, Everard is— Everard is but before the truth is told Maitland is stricken down with a heart seizure. For months he fights for his life, and when at last restored to health—as he, years later, tells Everard—“He found it was so easy to go on, in silence.” If his sin was vile, his punishment vvas heavy. And when, 20 years later, the past comes 'back, demanding retribution, Dean Maitland, for he is now a high dignitary of the Church, courageously rises in his pulpit, at last to tell the truth. Over the heads of his vast cathedral congregation an anguished voice cries, "I am that man.” “The Silence of Dean Maitland” was broken! - f

THEATRE ROYAL, WARNER BAXTER TO-NIGHT

Three lovely women desire the* thrill of Warner Baxter’s embrace in (Such Women are Dangerous,’ the comedydrama which screens to-night at the Theatre Eoyal. Baxter portrays the role of a handsome bachelor-novelist. One of the women is Rosemary Ames, the charming girl who invites love, yet challenges' conquest. The second is Rochelle Hudson‘cf Claremore, r Oklahoma. Miss Hudson made her debut in “Laugh and Get Rich.” In “Such Women are Dangerous,” Miss Hudson is one of the three ..women who love Warner Baxter and the one who plunges the novelist into very serious trouble —a murder charge. ' She is a highly emotional, lovestruck young romanticist, determined to stop at nothing. .This is bv far her most important role to date and, from all reports, she does a splendid job of it. The third is Mona Barrie, who brings the poise; and acting skill of considerable experience into her screen. worK, She played an-important role in “Carolina” with Janet Gaynor and l’ecehtly completed the second feminine lead in “All Men are Enemies.” In “Such Women are Dangerous” she has the very important role of .Wanda Paris, most glamorously alluring and voluptuous of the three women in the life of the.romantic novelist. Which finally wins him? The picture. will reveal that. SYDNEY HOWARD IN “TROUBLE,” REGENT, TUESDAY r J : y.'Never has Sydney Howard been seen to such advantage as in “Trouble,” His latest British and Dominions picture, •which comes to the Regent Theatre 'on Tuesday. The story is by Dudley, Sturrock, and is a light-hearted confection written round the exploits of a pair of jewel thieves on a pleasure cruise boat. Sydney Howard appears as Horace Hollebone, a ship’s steward, whose fund of earnest endeavour is only equalled by his capacity for making mistakes—in most of which he is aided and abetted by his friend, Steward Nobby dark. The fun begins when Hollebone turns sleuth and starts to track down the crooks by his I own peculiarly eccentric methods—in-1 spired' by a hundred pounds reward and a sympathetic interest in a girl passen-

ger who is falsely accused. Scenes ol Gibraltar, Vjgo, Casablanca, Lisbon and other places of pictorial interest are included in the picture. Much of the action concerns a chase through the native quarter of Tangiers, and this picturesque setting is used to full effect.