MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“ROSE MARIE.” In a production sweeping with song and scented with romance, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, those celebrated co-stars of "Naughty Marietta,” come to the screen of the Majestic Theatre 10-day in their weil-known characters of light opera, “Rose Marie.” Under their magic speil the full beauty of “The Indian Love Call," "Rose Marie,” "Love You,” “Song of the Mounties," and other classics from the Herbert StothartRudolf Frimi score, live again. More charming even than they were in the record-breaking "Naughty Marietta," "Rose Marie’ ’is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer triumph. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the mountainlike country of the Sierra Nevadas, the production is a pictorial sensation.: Glimmering lakes, towering peaks,' dangerous passes, all the beauty of' nature serves as background for the I romantic saga of the Great North-1 west. It was given full benefit of Director W. S. Van Dyke's proven talents and magnificently mounted by Producer Hunt Stromberg, the successful collaborators of "Naughty Marietta.” "Rose Marie” is the story of a Canadian grand opera singer who travels incognito into the backwoods regions in search of her brother, a criminal from justice. Also searching for the brother is Sergeant Bruce, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the mission of the other. The crashing climax and poignant ending of the story will be remembered long after most pictures are forgotten. One of the outstanding sequences is the Totem Pole Indian Dance, the grotescue set mounted on a sandspit extending into a broad lake. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in costume, with music thriliingly beautiful, it sets a new height for effect photography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast assists Miss MacDonald and Eddj in "Rose Marie,” among them being James Stewart as the criminal brother, Reginald Owen as the star's manager, Allan Jones who scored so decisively in "A Night at the Opera,” George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O’Connor and Lucien Littlefield.