MAJESTIC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 173, 23 July 1929, Page 11

MAJESTIC

“I am through. I shall return to the njysteries of science. The trail of the Creator is not so easy to follow.” With the utterances of these words, Benson, master mind of Scotland Yard, retired from the force. But an obsession took possession of him—to commit a crime so perfect that no one could unearth the perpetrator of the dead. This is the man and the motive around which revolves the thrilling, melodramatic plot of “The Perfect Crime,” now showing at The Majestic, with Clive Brook Playing Benson, Irene Rich, as his sweetheart, and Tully Marshall, Edmund Breese and others in the notable supporting cast. The photoplay was adapted to the screen by William Le Baron from Israel Zangwill’s famed novel, “The Big Bow Mystery.” Of timely and absorbing interest is the theme of “The Sin Sister,” which is also showing. It is timely because of the present interest in the land of ice and midnight sun roused by the dramatic experiences of various expeditions into the Arctic and Antarctic regions. It is absorbing because of the varied reactions of a given number of human beings at the slow but certain approach of death under conditions imposed by the bitter North. Their masks of civilisation are thrown aside, revealing men and Women as they really are. This is the animating motif back of “The Sin Sister.” And with Charles Klein, director, at the megaphone; with a cast of players like Nancy Carroll, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Dunn, Anders Randolf, Myrtle Stedman, Richard Alexander, Frederick H. Graham, George David and David Callis, the result is doubly effective. “The Sin Sister,” was written by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and Becky Gardiner, both well-known 'in the screen writing field. Harry Behn, who did such a good job on the scenario of “The Big Parade,” has repeated the success in this yarn. Seldom is there a picture released which has two such beauties as Nancy Carroll and Josephine Dunn pitted againt each other in the plot. Both are opposite types and both are entrancing. Anders Randolf and Myrtle Stedman both come in for a proper share of honors in their vigorous characterizations of the millionaire, Horn, and Sister Burton, respectively. 4 4 The Sin Sister” is an emotional tonic and a psychological study.