AMUSEMENTS
MAJESTIC THEATRE “The Billion Dollar Scandal,” featuring Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baelanova, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, Irving Pichel and Warren Hymer, is the main feature at the Majestic. The story, briefly, deals with the sensational expose of a gigantic swindle, brought about 'bv a. masseur named Partos as an act of vengeance against a powerful financier. Being particularly skilful as a masseur, Partos has been hired to work for the financier. Overhearing several stock tips, he suddenly finds himself rich enough to realise his ambition for his brother to mingle with the “best people.” The brother becomes infatuated with the financier’s daughter, and to halt their marriage, the financier “breaks” Partos. However, when a newspaper editor induces Partos to toll ail he knows, relative to an immense swindle, headed by the financier, he accepts, as a means of revenge upon his former employer. The events which happen, as a result of this expose, bring the picture to a startling climax. An artistic musical treat is provided tby the short feature, “Moonlight and Romance.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 5
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175AMUSEMENTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 5
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