MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 98, 16 December 1931, Page 2

MAJESTIC

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT

With the rapid development of the aeroplane and other modes of transportation and the increasing problem of traffic in our great cities, what will New York look like in 1980? ? Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, multi-millionaire authors and song writers, have attempted to answer that question in "Just Imagine," their second Fox Movietone comedy with songs. Iluge modernistic skyscrapers tower 200 and more stories above the street level. Fleets of aeroplanes, all equipped with helicopters that permit straight up and down flying, coming to a complete stop in the air, cruise the air lines. Aerial traffic eops, in anehored balloons, direct traffic. Great air liners bring all the capitals of the world within a few hours travel of the American metropolis. Nine traffic levels are provided, ranging from subways, surface trams, elevated railways and five automobile levels, to a novel canal system that permits great ocean liners to traverse the main thoroughfares, dis- | charging freight and passengers much ! as do the huge buses of our day. This one background is the greatest ! ever attempted in talking pictures, ac- j cording to preview word, and its beau- I ty and magnificence is a tribute to | the imagination of DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, and the technical skill of their director, David Butler, and Stephen Goosson and Ralph Hammeras, art directors. The cast of "Just Imagine" includes E1 Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White, and Frank Albertson.