MAJESTIC

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 199, 15 April 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC

TO-NIGHT "Spectaele," interpreted in terms of striking motion picture sets and costumes, has long been a term associated specially with the name of Cecil B. de Mille, Metro-Goldwjui-Mayer producer-director. With his "Zeppelin Ball" of "Madam Satin," which opens at the Majestic Theatre to-night, De Mille feels that he has achieved a worthy ocular successor to the "Cinderella Ball" of "Forbidden Fruit," the Babylon scenes of "Male and Female," and "The Sack of Rome" in "Manslaughter." De Mille's current appeal to eyes that love colour and cnarmingly draped human beings is lgid aboard a Zeppelin, the property of Roland Young, the comedian in "Madam Satan." A meeting on the Zeppelin between Bob Brooks (Reginald Denny) estranged from his wife, Kay , Johnson, with a mysterious 'Madam Satan," provides the^ principal impetus of the story. The denouement takes place just as the giant airship is torn loose from its mooring mast, forcing the guests to jump in parachutes.

The story starts in the home of Angela and Bob Brooks, who have grcwn apart from each other. The action then shifts to the various homes of their wealthy friends and culminates at a huge celebration on board Roland Young's Zeppelin. On the airship three special ballet numbers, "The Cat Ballet," "The Clock Ballet" and "Ballet* Mechanique," are spectacularly presented. Still another feature of "Madam Satan" are the song numbers. Among the principal songs are "Live and Love To-day," "All I Know Is You Are In My Arm's," "This Is Love," "Meet Madam," "The Beauty Auction," and "Each Little Sin," each one very tuneful and "catchy." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secured the services of one of America's leading bands, Abe Lyman's, to play the various numbers throughout the picture.