MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“A STAR IS BORN.” Concluding to-night at the Majestic Theatre is a short return season of easily the greatest technicolour film .■ et4o come to Wanganui—namely “A Star Is Born,” starring Janet Gaynor, Frederic March, and co-starring Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, llionel Slander. Now, for the first time, the emotionally thrilling truth about Hollywood is dramatically told in this unforgettable picture. Here is the Hollywood of fierce ambition—with all its bitterness and jealousy. “Gold Is Where You Find It.” California as it was in the 1870’s is a locale for the new life-like tcchnicolour production “Gold Is Where You Find It,” which opens to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre. Trinity County, in faraway northern California, still untouched by twentieth century civilisation, was chosen as the “location” in order to make the film story of the great feud between the wheat ranchers and the gold miners as authentic as possible. Much of the story is actual history, and much of that history actually took place in Trinity County —making the choice of location a perfect one. The entire production unit, including the stars George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, and many others who are featured in the film, spent weeks in the wilds of Trinity. The beauty of the north California country receives full justice on the screen, for it is photographed in full colour, said to be even more natural than “God’s Country and the Woman,” one of the most successful pictures of last year. In the film, the story of the struggle between the ranchers and the miners is told in stirring terms, the ranchers fighting to preserve their fertile lands from the depredations of the miners; the miners maintaining their right to reap their harvest of gold from the earth. A beautiful love story is woven into the epic tale with handsome Irish George Brent and lovely Olivia de Havilland as its principals. Other prominent, members of the cast are Barton MacLane, John Lite], Marcia Ralston, Tim Holt (young son of the famous Jack Holt), and Henry O’Neill.