MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 627, 4 September 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "Sunshine Susie" opens to-night at the Majestic Theatre. It is not so much a musical comedy as a comedy set to music, a comvedy bristling with originality, eatchy •song numbers, bright dialogue, and one that effervesces with happiness and laughter so that the audience f eels better for having seen it. That's about" the highest compliment a reviwere could pay to a picture of this description, but it is not too great a compliment. "Sunshine Susie" is notable for the remarkably engaging personalities of the German girl, Renate Muller, and the English comedian, Jack Hu.lbert. The girl may not he as pretty in the face as five hundred other blondes and brunettes of the screen, but she has something about her that | wins tbe audience her way irnmediate- j ly. Hulbert work quietly, gaining his laughs by facial expression and a mannerism that is all his own. He also scores well with an eccentric dance and by his conductorship of a male chorus — an item tbat is among tbe funniest things the screen has shown us for a year. The slight story is sufficient to convey a romantic interest between Re.nate Muller and Owen Nares, the president of the bank of which th former is an employee. She meets him under circumstances that lead her to blieve that he is an ordinary clerlc, and, after a night out together, lets him understand that, because of his financial position and business status, he would hardly be considered as a suitor witb a cbance. Her views alter considerably when she learns more about him. %