MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 15 June 1932, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND TO-NIGHT Eddie Cantor in "Palmy Days," which Samuel Goldwyn is presenting at the Majestic Theatre, heralds the advent of a new kind of song-and-dance picture. His "Whoopee" last year was acknowledged the last and greatest of the first great flood of that kind of screen entertainment. Eddie appears as an unwilling assistant to a gang of crooked fortun© tellers and spiritualists, planning to wreek a baltery by installing Eddie as an efficieney expert. ' The story was written by Cantor, Morrie Ryskind and David Freedman. It is a rowdy comic strip kind of a yarn moving blithely from the phoney mystic's holy of, holies to the splendour of a futuristic bakery — one of those Rube Goldberg bakeries "manned" by an imposing assemblage of Hollywood's most decorative femininity — to the Ziegfeldian opulence of a swimming pool scene, with a hundred prize bathing beauties competing with equally proud swans for attention, to a moonlit garden party with young love cooing among the lilac bushes, and on and on. Sharing the comedy honours with the beady-eyed and ebullient Eddie is elongated Charlotte Greenwood. Together, they lead their company through a striking gymnasium number, . giving more authenticity than usual to elaborate and complicated precision routines by a large dancihg. chorus. And they lead the cdst in 'an exhibition of dunking-as-it-shpuld-be-dunked. The shorts are splendid and include "Phar Lap" in America winning the Agua Caliente Handicap.