MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“PAYMENT DEFERRED.’’ Mystery, a bizarre trick of fate, an< Gue of the most gripping pieces o character portrayal in years, unite ii

making a vivid drama of “Payment Deferred, 0 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s lilmisation of the successful stage play, commencing to-day at the Majestic Theatre. Charles Laughton, whose performance in this picture cieated a world-wide sensation, is starred in the leading role, ably supported by Maureen O’Sullivan, Verree Teasdale and Dorothy Petersen. Not for a decade has any screen star given such an amazing serene performance as that of Charles Laughton in the role of William Marble, the bank clerk who, desperate because of his debts, murders a man to obtain money and hides the evidence so cleverly that he is never “The Story of Louis Pasteur.’’ “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” Friday’s attraction at the Majestic Theatre, is the motion picture art at its very best. In Paul Muni's portrayal of Pasteur is seen one of the most outstanding achievements in acting that the screen has ever known. Muni becomes Pasteur on the screen, the great saviour of human lives, the unselfish, courageous man who had only one thought in mind —to bar death from the thresholds of homes, to rescue mothers as they went down into the valleys of the shadow’ of death. Paul Muni is a revivified Pasteur, a simple, quiet, big-hearted man, whose dauntdess devotion to humanity, sacrifice of self, the giving completely of hig own life to the saving of others, stir to a far greater extent than episodes co»cocted from the imagination of the most prolific writer of fiction. The supporting cast of “The Story ol Louis Pasteur” is a worthy one, including Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise. Donald Woods, and many others.