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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 12 March 1935, Page 3

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MAJESTIC CINEMA glazing a new trail in screen stories “Their Big Moment,” currently starring Zasu Pitts and Slim Summerville, which opens to-day at the Majestic Cinema, is a radical departure from the type of pictures in which this popular team has heretofore appearedWithout any diminution of the comedy element, it is said to be replete with thrills and tense situations and, as the story progresses, it resolves itself into melodrama of the most exciting kind. Adapted from the London stage success, “Afterwards,” by Walter Hackett “Their Big Moment” tells the story of a distracted widow who will not rest easy until she can pierce the veil of the infinite and talk with the spirit of her departed husband, being advised by a physician who claims to be a psychic, and who has her under his sinister domination. The widow’s sister thinks that the messages that the doctor claims to receive may be genuine, and she fears that they may divulge an affair she had had with her brother-in-law shortly before his death. To prevent this, she hires a vaudeville magician and his troupe to perform a fake prepared seance that will rid the household of the doctor and reassure the widow. Zasu Pitts, as the magician’s assistant, poses as a clairvoyant, after having memoried speeches to be delivered while in her simulated trance. But her hitherto unknown intuition really comes to the surface and she unwittingly blows the lid off a most dastardly crime by unexpectedly giving the right answers. Julie Haydon portrays the widow about whom all the plotting centres, and Ralph Morgan lias the role of the scheming doctor, one of her several enemies. Bruce. Cabot portrays another shadv character, William Gaxtor. is " the magician. Kay Johnson is featured as the wrdow s sister and others in the case include Tamara Geva J. Huntley Gordon and Edward Brady. James Cruze directed. REGENT THEATRE. Richard Dix triumphs as star Oi "No Marriage Ties,’’ which opens tonight al the Kegent Theatre with Elizabeth Allan featured. For his magei f C enl characterisation of a s " ,fl ' ino . ing heart-stealing super-salesman and roSeo. we award him an entire bouquet /f orchids. Deftly Dix P'ays with the hearts of suppressed and of care free women alike as a gallant.who takes ad vantage of all opportunities, at we same time trifling with the public ■■ credulitv as an unscrupulous !tdvertls ' .nv genius. Fired from his newspaper iob he celebrates in a speakeasy. There he acquires an advertising agency job. Becoming an advertising power he loses the girl through romancinz with a society woman. 1 urthermore, he S Toses face when busmess enemies threaten exposure of his trade A dramatic climax teaches him the meaning of true love at the cost of a woman® life, and of business honesty at the cost of a high position. It is the favourite Richard IDix in No Ma. riaze Ties”— dashing, smiling, virile he man soul. He lures the ladoes with nonchalance, breaking their hearts. as if flicking matches. His infectious smile everlasting forcefulness and magnetic personality are in harmony With an interestingly woven themA Elizabeth Allan lends a spirit and charm to the story. Her gay Engl eh beauty makes a lively contrast to the serei J picture portrayed by Dons Kenyon as the society woman._