MAJESTIC THEATRE
“THE RAT” Anton Walbrook, Ruth Chatterton and Mary Clare, in “The Rat,” commencing to-day at the Majestic Theatre, show generosity and the finer shades of love do not belong exclusively to the reputable and honourable citizens of this world. Walbrook, as “The Rat," a suave, dangerous cat burglar of Paris, to whom danger is the spice of life, has never been known to break his word to his friends, and it is that which makes a condemned criminal, who imagined that he could keep his seventeen-year-old girl pure and out of the gutters of Paris, hand over the con-vent-trained lass to the care of the man most hated by the .police. The Rat’s haunts are not the place for her, so he simply takes her under his wing up in an attic and makes her stay there? Seeing him only now and again, the girl takes months to realise that he is a dangerous crook, but he plays the game with his executed friend and gradually the girl gives up trying to take a place in his life. The prefect of police despairs of ever laying hands on the Rat, and it looks as though there were a deadlock in romance until a rich girl, who comes into an apache cellar with her fiance just as the Rat is about to kill a traitor, undertakes to overcome the distaste which her kind arouses in this master thief.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 240, 11 October 1938, Page 9
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