JOSEPH CONRAD STORY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 14

JOSEPH CONRAD STORY

RONALD COLMAN IN “RESCUE” Joseph Conrad was a Pole, but his command of the English language was nothing short of marvellous. There was about all his writings an air of finality. He fixed a scene in his own way and when he had written it he fixed it in the mind of his reader. Tie never depicted impossible heroes. His men ore flesh and blood and his women are often first cousins spiritually to the tigers whose lithe grace he has stolen for them. . In “Rescue,” the United Artists picture which is to be seen at the Majestic Theatre commencing on June 28. Tom Lingard risks his own honour and the lives of his friends for one night of madness. In the stockade of the Rajah of Belarab there is played out a drama of love and hate that is primal in its intensity. But the grave of his friends is the grave of his hopes. The lovely Java seas for him are bloodstained for ever, the palm trees sing a dirge and the sands are the everlasting winding sheet of death. “Rescue” is a. vivid story and on the screen it is rich with life and colour. Ronald Colman makes Lingard fairly live upon the screen, and Lily Damita and the moonlight between them are sufficient excuse for his tropic madness. DIXIELAND CABARET The delightfully-situated and comfortably arranged cabaret at Dixieland will be open for dancing as usual this evening. Music will be supplied by the famous and up-to-date Dixieland Dance Band. The Dixieland Boys, direct from New York, will appear for the first time this evening, and will present some of the most novel cabaret items seen in Australia o.r New Zealand. YE OLDE PIRATE SHIPPE Ye Olde Pirate Shippe. Milford, known far and wide as New Zealand’s unique cabaret, will be the scene of a happy dance this evening. Ye Versatile Pirates Band plays all the latest and brightest music. A free motor-car service is run between the Shippe and the buses. MUNICIPAL CHOIR A specially attractive programme has been arranged for the Municipal Choir concert in the Town Hall on Saturday next, June 22. The chonwill sing "The Tempest" for double chorus, by Cornelius: Robertson's ‘■Celtic Hymn” Sullivan's “O Gladsome Light.”; and works by Purcell and Boughton. Violin solos will be played jy Miss Jean Allen, and Mr, Len Barnes will be the vocalist. Fox will remake “The Man Who Came Back’’ as a talkie. The pictui-e was i originally made in 1924 with George 1 O’Brian and Dorothy Mackaill.