MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 29 November 1935, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“THE EAVEN.” An eerie, imaginative iihn, with the two principals of “Frankenstein” and “Dracula/’ Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, “The Raven,’’ will conclude a season at the Majestic Theatre tonight. Adapted from the narrative by Edgar Allan Poe, the film deals with a mad doctor, who is suffering from a torture complex and sets out to demonstrate his theories. There are some excellent photographic effects and the sets are unusually vivid and impressive. The supporting cast includes Irene Ware, Lester Matthews aud lan Wolfe. “Paris in Spring.” A sparkling production is “Paris in Spring,” the delightful Paramount comedy, which commences a season at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. Directed with consummate artistry, the film captures the very breath of spring —a spring which one only associates with. Paris, when the city is gloriously awake, and adventure is in the air. Tullio Carminati, the personable Italian actor, won many admirers by his performance in “One Night of Ix>ve,” but it is in “Paris in the Spring,” as Paul de Lille, that his flair for light comedy conies to fruition. By every little hesitant gesture and quaint intonation of English—especially in his more emotional love passages—Carminati wins .the amused sympathy of the audience, but has unfortunate success in incurring the antipathy of Simone, a lovely cabaret singer (Mary Ellis), with whom he, not unnaturally, is desperately in love. So desperately, that he is in half a mind to jump from the top of the Eiffel Tower at the very beginning of the film. Simone, of course, is in love with de Lille, but she appears to disdain his advances. The stage is thus set for a delightful piece of deception. Jealousy begins to rear its ugly head when thc two lovers arrive at a country mansion, and the sequel is a serial of misunderstandings, with which the director, Lewis Milestone, makes excellent play. There is plot and counterplot and mutual recrimination, but it is spring time, and the tangled threads are unravelled for a delightful and happy ending. In the role of k Parisian night club entertainer Alary Ellis is as charming as ever, and her voic-e is charming, too. She is comparatively new to the screen work, but her talented interpretation in “Paris in Spring” ensures for her a successful career at Hollywood. Among the supporting cast is Ida Lupino, a member of the well-known Lupino family of entertainers, w’ho gives a satisfying performance as an ingenue blonde. The shorter films are an entertainment in themselves. They include another of the interesting “Broadway Highlights” series, a comical cartoon in which “Pop-eye the Sailor” cuts his usual capers, and a Grantland Rice Sportlight. There is also a camera record of the final doubles match in the Davis Cup contest.