MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 103, 2 May 1936, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“RENDEZVOUS” SHOWINS Cryptography is the theme around which is woven the story of William Powell's latest picture. •• Rendezvous,' ’ which incidentally is another film many times better than its almost meaningless title suggests. In il Rendezvous,’ 1 screening to-day at the Majestic Theatre, Powell plays the part of a man expert in codes and ciphers, whom an unsympathetic Government keeps at a desk in Washington when the United States joins in the Great War, and the picture derives its name from the efforts of enemy agents to unravel the ciphers containing the meeting place of United States troopship* with British war vessels. Powell ia hampered in his brain-racking task b? the deliberate efforts of the inevitable beautiful female spy, played by Binnie Barnes, and the exasperating stupidity of Rosalind Russell, niece of the head of Powell’s department. The story is unfolded against a background of secret radio stations, invisible ink writing, and all manner of chemical and mechanical means for the making and breaking of ciphers. On the same pro gramme are an “Our Gang” comedy, presenting an uproarious juvenile vaudeville show, in which the antics of the audience often better those of the actors, a Fitzpatrick travel-talk in colour, showing the ancient city of the Mayan Indians in Guatemala, and a varied English and American newsreel