LON CHANEY'S LATEST SUCCESS AT MAJESTIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 2

LON CHANEY'S LATEST SUCCESS AT MAJESTIC.

Lon Ghaney has accomplished one oi his most miraculous clnu aclerisations as "Dead Legs Flint" in "Wc-4 of Zanzibar." the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer special attraction which pieture goers in Napier will have their last cliance of seeing at the popular Majcstic to-niglit. The new Aletro-G'oldwyn-Maycr production, a grim diama of primitive emotions in a wild jungle, shows Chaney in one of tlie most remarkable of his roles, that of a former stage mngician who, paraJysed in a figlit with the man who stole liis wife's love, follows liis eneaiy into the Dnrk Continent, nsing liis magic- to terrorise and rule savages j and to wreak a terrible revenge. The climax is one of tlie most gripping denouemeuts literature has ever produced. and through it all runs a delij c-ate romance, this heing enacted by | Mary Nolan, a.s tlie magieian's daughtor, and Warner Baxter, a renegade phvsician in the iungles, who finds regeneration in lier love. "The Desert iBride," a Columbia production, is a J colourful drama of tlie Near East with 1 thrilling sequeuces in Arahian palaees. ! bazaars and market places. The glamorous life of a Aloliammedan city. with I its subtle underc-urrents, is faithfully j portraved 011 tlie screen. Betty Comp- | son has a powerful dramatie role amid j tlie sandstorms of tlie desert. tlie iui trigue and rebellions of Araljs. j EXCELLENT MA.TERTIO SHOW, SATURDAY. j Picture-goers will miss a great treat if thev iail to see "The Constant Nvmph" while it is being showu at the Majcstic Theatre. Crowded houses have testilied to the cxccllenee of this British pieture. an adaptation of the novel by Margaret Kennedy. Not only was the hook a "best-seller" but its drnmatisation made a suceessful Wost End play which subsequently won i 111men.se popula ritv in the provinces. The pieture captures and retains tlie "atmosphere" of the excellent storv, and as a production places British picturcs liigh in the estimation of tliose critics who, until recentlv, were loth to adinit iliat liome productions were comparable with foreign pictures. "The Constant Nvmph" has ver.v emphatically tumed the tables upon those wlio take a ploasure in decrj'ing liome produc-ts. The acting is upon a high level. Alabel Poulton's characterisation of "Tessa," is the linest ever achieved hy a British screen actress. Ivor Novello. as the err?tic "Lewis Dodd," also gives a fine performanee. "The Constant Nvmph" is a film that we can whole-beartedly recommend. Again in a strong, handsome and heroic role. George O'Brien will he 'seen in the. lrox production of "Blindfold." This time George is a policeman. a role he long has wanted to play4 3?His actor, should know. his

1 j ; olicemen, having heen reared in the | shadows of the San Francisco poliee stalion. His iather is chief of poliee ihere. "Tlio average citizen," George tiiid when iiroduction of ihe film start^d. "looks upon 11 cop a.-> a necessary j i-vil — the kind that lalk.s out of the ; orner of his lnouth and indulges in ! t Iieatricalisin in his 'piiiclies.' I want j to show liini as I know liim — a good Lxldier ohcying his supcriors, and oll'cr- | ing his bo'dv w a hutfcr between you j and the rough sido of life. -Uy : iather is much intcrestcd 111 this role * oi niino and is assisting me in inv t iMterpretatioii. Poliee work is his oue : iad in Ihe. and naliirallv I10 is anxious j that I give the real 'low down' on j poliee liiethiHl-." The lcatling fcmi- | lune role 111 "Bliudloti" is jila.ved hy 1 ihe peiitc Lois Marau oi "'Stella Uaihis" and Eox Eilius studio tame. IGtliers inchule Earle Eoxe, Eritz Keld li.nd two new Eox "finds," D011 Terry and Maria Alba. 'ITie storv was diheeted hy Charlcs Klcin and written lor ihe s'M'ceii lyv that lclh-r of vivi'l 1 tah-s. ( harles I'Tanei- Gee. Blan at ihe Bristol Theatre. 'jihoiie, 2708.