MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18057, 6 April 1933, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

A murder film that isn’t is perhaps a suitable summary for ".Strange dust ice.” the current attraction at the Majestic. In the story of the film there is a complete breakaway from ordained custom. The audience follows the career of a wealthy pleasureloving banker through night-life adventures, becoming attracted by a "hat-check” girl at a fashionable restaurant. The girl’s appeal to him for help for her penniless and unemployed lover meets with a ready response, for the gay young banker is generous with money—belonging to other people. His second in command at the bank discovers the big defalcations, and demands a fifty-fifty share, under threat of disclosure. There are tense scenes between the pair, and an eventual plot which involves the banker’s recently-appointed chauffeur, the fiancee of the "hat-cheek” girl. It is only then that one begins to see how circumstantial evidence is builtup against this youth, and the story is cleverly conveyed by suggestion rather than by unpleasant scenes. The film is a starring vehicle for Reginald Denny and Marian Marsh, although a splendid performance is also given by Richard Bennett as an Irish-American lawyer. In "Destry Rides Again,” Tom Mix, with the invaluable assistance of his horse, Tony, makes of Max Brand’s novel a picture which must appeal to all.