MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 460, 18 February 1933, Page 2

MAJESTIC THEATRE

to-night. Buster Ke^ton will he seen at the Majestic Theatre to-night in "Speak Easdly," a riotous story of a college professor who inherits close to a million dollars and becomes a theatncal producer. An all-comedy cast supPQrts the star, including the inimitahle Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante, Ruth Selwyn,- Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, William Pawley, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta and Edward Brophy. . , •"Speak Easily," which is hased on the Clarence Budington- Kelland story, "Footlights," wais selected as Keaton's newest vehicle because of its unlimited

■opportunity for humorous gags, amusing dialogue and rapid-fire comedy action. The fun begins when Keaton with his . newly acquired f oi'tune foi*sakes the uneventful routine of academic life and startsf out to see the world, meeting on the way a theatrical troupe which is istranded in a country town and is on the verge of "folding up." * . The professor is so charmed by one of the shaw's dancers that he ventures to back this dubious theatrical enteiv P'rise, and moreover, is so confident of its success that he brings it to New York, where the show ultimately receives the publicity which makes it a sensatiorial hit. Many of the laughs 'in "Speak Easii ly" occur wh'en Keaton unwittingly finds himself in the centre. of the ' stage and almost blunders the entire , show into rain. ■ -Needless to • say, "Schnozzle" Durante, as a piano play- • er, also has a great deal to . do with the hilarity of the proceedings and even introduces some new song, "I Gan Do Without Broadway, but Can Broadway Do Without Me?" The picture was directed by Edward Sedgwick, who has been associated with most of Keaton's previous talkies, including "The Passionate Plumiber," and "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath."