EMPIRE THEATRE.

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 8

EMPIRE THEATRE.

“SON OF INDIA.”

TO-DAY AND MONDAY,

Fast as an express train, Ramon Novarro’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “Son of India,” to be screened at the Empire Theatre to-day and Monday, tells its vivid story of India with no halts and no interruptions. The story starts with a Hindu bandit raid on a party of a jewel-laden rajah and his son. A yogi, a Hindu holy man, saves Novarro, the son, from death by burying him alive! The rajah is killed in the fight. Later, in Bombay, a beggar, Novarro, tries to sell the only thing he saved from the raid, an enormous diamond. A greedy jewellei' charges him with theft of his own property, and Novarro is saved from false imprisonment by the intervention of an American, Conrad Nagel. Novarro falls in love with Madge Evans, and saves her life during an exciting tiger hunt, when he meets and conquers Juggat, the bandit who killed his father. When the pair return to Bombay Novarro is faced by the girl’s brother, who proves to be Nagel, to whom Novarro owes such a debt of gratitude. What happens later in this romance and melodrama of inter-racial love and marriage must be left untold. To relate how Madge Evans solved the problem would be to detract from the public’s enjoyment of this rapid-fire melodramatic romance. Ernest Vajda, talented author of the “best seller,” among plays, “Fata Morgana,” did the adaptation from F. Marion Crawford’s novel, “Mr Isaacs.” The picture was directed by the leading director of France, Jacques Feyder. The supporting features include the first episode oi the exciting serial, “Call of the Circus.”