"THE BELLAMY TRIAL" AND "CAPTAIN LASH," MAJESTIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 85, 13 May 1929, Page 2

"THE BELLAMY TRIAL" AND "CAPTAIN LASH," MAJESTIC.

Who murdered Mimi Bellamy, the beautiful young leader of New York ccunty society? This was the questiop set picture-goers at the popular Majestic on Saturday night, when the attraction par excelle7ice was the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer super novelty attraction for 1929, "The Bellamy Trial, ' surel.v the most unique film ever proouced, with cei'tainly the most thrilling anti-climax ever seen on the silver sheet. It is the plea of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organisation to all pictuve-goers who seo this pieture, to refrain from revealing tlie identity of tbe real murderer. Tlie story itself is oue of the most absorbing ever written and it is at present rumiing in scrial form in the Daily Telegraph Sports Edition. In the film the audience, Jike the reader in the story, is placed in the position of an onlookei in tlie Belmont Courthouse, during tlie lcngth of those poignant days when Stephen Bellamy, husband of the mur dered girl, and Sue Ives, wife of the man with whom she was alleged to be ccnducting an illicit love afi'air, wero on their trial, with the shadow of the dreaded electric chair hanging abovc their heads. It i« jmpossible to adeqi.atelj' descrjbe tb_e effect of this picture upon its audience. _ At one moment it looks as if nothing can eave the two unfortunates in the dock and, seconds later, it appears plainlv that they had no hand in the crime. So the somewhat terrifying see-saw goes on ii n ti 1 the end of the trial, wlien comes tbe most amazing anti-climax it is pos- 1 sible for any human brain to conceive. The pieture is one of the most grip- 1

ping dramas ever filmed and can bc heartily reconjmended to all who are in need of thrills. Admireis of Victoi iMcLaglen were there in lorce 011 Saturday niglit for lris latest btarrinp ichicle, "Captain Lasli," in wliieli hc is fceen iu eonibination with Clyde Cook, tlio English comedian. McLaglei* is superb in the role of the hardboiled stoker .skipper with the sobriquet eonierj'ed on bim 011 account of liis roloiitless manner of driving his men aboard an . ocean liner. C'lnire Windsor, tbe feminine leud, seldom has seemcfl lovelier, and nevcr revealed such dramatic talent, and tlie supporting east is reallv excellcnt with | Artlinr Stone. Albert Conti and otber I favouritcs giving fiawless portrayals. | "Captain Lash" is tlie hest vehicle McT aglen has had siuce "What Pnre Glory?" A third excellcnt feature 011 thc progranune is thc pictorial record rf Zanc Groy's exploits amongst thc | pui ko sbark and .-.wonlfish in thc Bay of Tslands, which. with a sparkling conicdy and 1hc ucual gnzettes, comj pietes n lirst-elass programme.