MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 8 April 1936, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“CALLING OF DAN MATTHEWS.” Out of the fiery pages of Harold Bell Vright’s blazing novel comes the pic:urc all America is cheering! Read and overt by millions, “The Calling of Dan Matthews” reaches the screen as a lynarnic saga of a one-man vice-squad, ■ipping the lid off a city of sin! The jrilliant pen of Harold Bell M right ■rented the character of this modern roung crusader and Richard Arlen ; wrings him to life in the pieturised verdon of this famous novel, showing to-day at the Majestic Theatre)an .Matthews is fiction's favourite hero—a two-fisted foe of crime in new, more thrilling adventures! Appearing opposite Richard Arlen is Charlotte Wvnters, a recent recruit from the Broadway stage. Others in the cast ire Douglass Dumbrille, Donald Cook. Mary Kornman, Frederick Burton and Lee Moran. Phil Rosen directed the film from a screen play prepared J)y Dan Jarrett, Don Swift and Karl Brown. “Mutiny on the Bounty.’’ The dramatic and romantic. story of the Bounty mutiny, one of the strangest dramas ever enacted in the southern seas, has been faithfully poitiajcd in the film “Mutiny on the Bounty, which is to commence on Saturday at the Majestic Theatre. Charles Laughton gives one of the finest performances of his career as Captain Bligh. Clark Gable, is Fletcher Christian, is also outstanding, and gives a masterful interpretation of his mle as a young officer who is torn between his devotion to duty and his love of freedom and jus_ tice. The mutiny and the escape of tho mutineers to 'Tahiti and subs-e--quently to Pitcairn Island are featured in the film.