MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 250, 13 June 1932, Page 2

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. Eddie Cantor's memorable entry* into the motion picture firmament by making "Whoopee" has been eclipsed in "Palmy Days," the famous comic's second screen vehicle which will be presented by Samue! Goldwyn at the Majestic Theatre tonight. Surrounded hy myriads of feminine pulcbritude, Pogany settings, an outstanding cast and a story in which Cantor collaborated with Morrie. Ryskind and David Freedman, the star of "Pahny Days" projects himself from hilarity to upvoariousness in a. sories of ingenious Gantor situations. In "Palmy Days" Cantor uses the bland nonsense of his newest picture as an attack on the. practice of spiritualism and fortune telling. Eddic appears ar the unwilling assistant to a gang of fake mystics, through which is revealed some of the crooked tactics of the craft that annually is naid to mulct the public out of 125,--000.000 dollars. To get detail and experienee and atmosphere for the picture, Eddie visited numerous fortune tellers in Kew York, Los Angcles and other cities, gathering to- ( gether actual instances exposed hy the late Houdr'ni. A deviation from spiritualism to the role of bakery efficiency manager provides one of the highlights in successive waves of mirth and excitement experienced by Cantor and his troupe. Howls of humour are bound to trail Eddie's bare feet in their scramble for safety when a bevy of beauties pursue him through a housa party, a robbery, a jilting, and an anti-climax in which, despite Eddie's comical and agonised pleadings, lie is hailed as a hero and claimed as a mate.