MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 128, 22 January 1932, Page 6

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT Whirling round-abouts, . shrieking whistles, "hot-dog" vendors, all the glamorous atmosphere of England's great race day, Derby Day, are shown with great gusto in the screen adaptation of Ian Hay's racing comedy, "The Sport of Kings," which opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. . i Derby Day is known the world over as a day when all of merry England's traditional restraint and eonservative nature is crushed by the spirit of reekless abandon which pervades the air on the great day of all days, It is indeed a strange sight, especially in a eountry where. class distinction prevails to a' very great extent, to see fashionable Londoner and humble yokel arriying side by side, the one iri a shining automobile, the other in a noisy, creaking dray cart. A particularly picturesque feature on Derby Day is Mr. and Mrs. "Peal'ly," one phase of English national life that every visitor to the Old Country. knows well. j The Coster's "going .out" dress is comprised of an abundance of pearly .! shells which glint in the sun and tinkle in the hreeze. | In this turf .comedy Ian Hay has , caught the very spirit of carnival — j

and England, young; and old, rich and poor, on holiday. Leslie Henson, star of "A Warm Gorner," is grand as an amorous, rural justice of the peace who subsequently takes to shouting the odds.