MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 459, 17 February 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. You'll need to be in great trim to keep pace with the roaring . pace Gracie Fields sets in h'er latest musical comedy, "Looking on the Bright Side," which -opened at the Majestic Theatre last night. The story, ranging from the regions of domestic and romantic comedy to straight out slap-stick, gives abundant scope to "Our Gracie," as this clever entertainer is popularly known through'out Britain, to exercise her vocal and comic talents. Gracie is a manicurist in an establishment where her young man is a hairdresser. He has written and- had accepted a song bearing the same title as the film, and when he has a chance to meet an impresario, Schultz, . (which he does in eompany with Gracie), he readily ac-iepts a contraet to compose numbers for a new show,. not realising that his good fortune is due, not so much to his rnerits as'a composer, but to the faet that he had Gracie to sing the trial -numbers for him. Schultz realises that Gracie is the better artist, and offers her a contraet as well. Gracie refuses and even when she loses her job through "getting" her own back on an actress who has temporarily stolen h'er Laurie's affections, she prefers to enlist as a member of the women's police force. Finally, however, she agrees to ac~ cept the easier or, at all events, smoother part of a stage career, and immediately achieves a sensational success with the songs of Laurie, who, having failed to "deliver the goods," has had his contraet torn up by Schultz Julian Rose makes' a commendable and extremely laughable tallcie debut as Shultz, whom he limns with fruity humour, and Richards Dolman makes the most of Laurie.