MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 716, 16 December 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TO-NIGHT. "So Thiis is Africa, " latest Wheel-er-Woolsey contribution to the screen, : ds the African picture to end all African pictures. These merry gentle- ' men reveal more secrets about the great continent than the natives of said continent know themselves. And lasife night's audience at the Majestic ' Theatre just sat and roared at the nonchalant manner in which this fa- ' mous laugh team invades the wilds for big "dame" hunting. There has never appeared on any screen so utterly satiricial and so entertainimg.' as the picture of Wheeler and Woolsey (the latter disguised as -a woman) trying to hide from a tribe •of 100 stalwart Amazon women who are bent upon making one of these •comedians marry her. If there were nothing more in "So This is Africa" to commend it to audiences, this one .scsne would justify a visit to the 1 theatre. ,So far as the story goes, "So This .is Africa" is imaginative, to say the ' 'least. What happens to Wheeler and "Woolsey as they leave America and dissolve inito the interior of the dark ' belt would be diffiicult to miaitch in actual life. Which is well, for if Wheeler and Woolsey had the hurdon •of an utterly realistic plot to carry along, the wild humour of "So This is Africa" would be completely lost. Particularly pleasing are the sideswipes of satire that Columbia has delivered in this comedy against the succession of thrilling and adventurous wild andmal pictures that have flooded our screens. An added attraction is a film in techniclour, Wlalt Disney Silly Symphony, Father Noah's Ark.