MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Undiminished in its popularity, though ■ in its third week, "Broadway Melody lof 1930" continues to delight large audiences at the Majestic Theatre. Packed throughout ■ with interest of every kind, it is the sort of film which appeals to all tastes, while the vocal quality of the cast and the spectacular dance routines and ballets arc exceptionally fine. The backgrounds are of unusual splendour and throughout there runs an exciting and delightful romance. There are five song numbers, presented in a way to enhance the catchy melodies and make them live in the memory. "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'," "You Are My Lucky Star," "Sing Before Breakfast," "Broadway Rhythm." and "On a Sunday Afternoon" would ensure the success of "Broadway Melody of 1936" without the romantic story which unfolds itself, backed by a big cast of superlative quality. The first half is a short one, but it is as excellent as the long film which passes so quickly. "How to Sleep,", as shown by Robert Benchley; a Metrotone News, and "Historic Mexico City," a travel talk in colour, place the audience in an excellent humour for the feast to follow. "China Seas." ,The south coast of China, last frontier of the sea, is the unusual setting of one of the new season's dramatic photoplays. The picture is "China Seas," produced by Irving G. Thalberg for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast headed by Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Wallace Beery, and including a dozen other celebrities. Tay Garnett directed. The picture is coming to the Majestic Theatre. The entire action-of the plot takes place aboard a coastwise steamer between Hong Kong and Singapore, and includes the photographing, for the first time on the screen, of one of the violent typhoons that have made this part of the Pacific the graveyard for thousands of stout ships. The recent pirate pillaging of a British ship in these waters provided exciting news for a week. Piracy still exists in this lonely section, the pirates being outcasts from the Malay Archipelago, and Chinese brigands whose armadas for the most part are clumsy junks. "China Seas" tells the story of a group of European cosmopolites whose lives and safety are threatened by pirates and by vicious storms common to this section. Love, hate, and mtrigue are blended in the plot. Miss Harlow is presented as "China Doll" a lovely blonde charmer well known in _he ports of the Orient. Opposite her i afu Gable appeals as Gaskell, master oi the steamer, with Beery playing VlcArdle, a bluff trader who is secrety the master-mind of the pirate band supporting: the stars is a cast that includes Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell Dudley Digges, C. Aubrey Smith Robert Benchley, and many others. Tay Garnett directed.