AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20106, 27 March 1928, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS.

THE MAJESTIC. “The Honeymoon Express,” showing finally to-night at The Majestic, is a lively though tenderly human story of family life. It portrays, also, the havoc which too much money may wreak on the lives of its possessors. , Theo Lambert home is a house divided against itself. Willard Louis plays the ludicrously voluptuous husband and father who is being eagerly ensnared by a pretty gold-digger, Jane Winton. Irene Rich is the mother, who, after self-effacing years finds herself neglected by all but her younger daughtef, Jean, Helene Costello. Virginia Lee Corbin docs Becky, the wilful older daughter, who is being sought for her money, by a young rotter, John Patrick. Lance, Harold Goodwin, the son of the family, is losing clients and courage through dissipation. Margaret Lambert suddenly becomes aware of her position in the household and sets about righting it. Taking her younger | daughter, she goes out into the world, effects a rejuvenation both personal and spiritual, wins positon and love, and the devotion of her misguided children. Her husband begs to be taken back but unavailingly. There are many intriguing conflicts in the ‘ picture, much to make one sit up and j take notice. Irene Rich plays with I sincerity and conviction; Williard Louis is at his funniest and most ingratiating, and all the members of the cast seem peculairly attuned to the mood of the piece. “East Side, West Side," the Fox production, will also be shown for the last time to-night. George O’Brien and Virginia Valli have tho principal roles in the strikng picture of a boy’s struggle for success in the heart of a great city. A competent cast consisting of many well-known stage players lends them admirable support. The programme has been playing to capacity houses since it opened last Saturday, indicating its popular appeal here to enthusiastic audiences. Wednesday’s Programme. In the film version of Tolstoy’s “Resurrection," which comes to The Majeste Theatre next Wednesday, every human emotion described in Tolstoy’s immortal classic of love lost and regained is depicted in pantomime. Rod La Rocque is the star and Dolores del Rio the featured player. Edwin

Carewe, director, was assisted by Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the author of

“Resurrection," in fiilming the classic novel. The joyous, care-free spirit of youth is to be found in the opening sequences, wherein the Prince falls in love with the peasant ward of his aunts, and before the first reel is over that white love has turned to purpled passion. Then in rapid-fire succession come despair, abandonment, buoyant humour and utter indulgence, ’life, death, spiritual rebirth following vile degradation, imprisonment, exile, bitterness and yearning, sacrifice and “Resurrection" itself. The gamut of emotions through which Blanche Walsh on the stage and Mary Garden in opera have swept in tho part of Katusha Maslova is now the course of Dolores del Rio in “Resurrection/’ while Rod La Rocque loves and leaves and loves again in the dramatic role of Dmitri, the part which Sir Herzert BecrbohmTrce created n London in 1903. As a prologue to “Resurrection/' Mr Billy Hart, who is so well-known over the radio from 2YA, has been specially engaged to sing Russian Lullaby prior to the screening.