MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 622, 29 August 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-DAY AND7TO-NIGHT. "The Kid from Spain," with Ed- 1 die Cantor as the pop-eyed matador for laughs and a hundred dark-eyed senoritas for further excitement in a lusty tale of Mexican bullfighting. and love-making, opened at the Ma- ( jestie Theatre last night, , It is the annual screen song-and- 1 danee comedy of Eddie Cantor succeeding his "Palmy Days" of last sea- j son and "Whoopee" of the year be- ' fore. Eddie makes but one picture o year, saving his energy, his voicd and his laughs for a single big effort. | "The Kid from Spain" is the story of a button-eyed lad, who, getting ■ kicked out of school with his room- j mate for suspicious goings-on in a ! girl's dormitory, gets involved in a bank robbery and escapes to Mexico disguised as Don Sebastian II, the famous bullfighter. He accepts the aeclaim of a great fete in his honour, trying desperately to maintain his' masquerade into the arena to fight the four bulls in the thrilling climax of the picture. Goldwyn went to great pains to make the arena and its atmosphere authentic. Bulls were brought from Mexico and a hundred experts of one kind or another put it into operation. Sidney Franklin, the world's greatest bullfighter,- appears in the picture under his own name at the head of the procession of matadors, and later in an exhibition of his sport. For .the beauty and colour of the arena and for the gala fiesta that precedes it, Goldwyn marshalled together 76 of the proudest beauties of the world, the most beautiful girls this side of heaven. Song, dance, msuic, as well as laughter, bring them into the picture and take them out.