“THE GREEN GODDESS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 14

“THE GREEN GODDESS”

COMING TO THE MAJESTIC Only in the Warner Bros.' all-talk-ing A itaphone version of "The Green Goddess,” starring George Arljss, which is coining to the Majestic Theatre next week, will the complete story of that popular stage and silent screen success be told. Neither the stage nor the silent screen was able to utilise all the material available in the spectacular melodrama. No better example can be found of the ability of the screen to make up for the limited scope of the stage and of the ability of the VitaPhone to complete the illusion of the screen than “The Green Goddess.” On the stage, the exteriors were impossible. The story of the wreck of the airplane in the wildest stretches of unknown Tibet, had to he described and never shown. The same was true of a spectacular rescue which had to be made off stage. In the silent version of the screen play most of the subtle deviltry of the Rajah, played by Arliss, and all of the delightful qualities of that famous voice, were lost. The lines of the show are clever and telling in the development of the plot and the characterisation. Now in the new Vitaphone production, utilising the wider range of screen technique and at the same time keeping intact the lines and the quality of the voices of Arliss, H. B. Warner, Alice Joyce, Ralph Forbes and others, "The Green Goddess” will be complete for the first time.