MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 11

MAJESTIC

HECTOR ST. CLASR COMEDY A hearty laugh is promised Auck-to-night at the Majestic, when a topical comedy made in-and-about Auckland city will be one of the amusing features on the programme. Hector St. Clair, the popular comed •, who has no difficulty on the stage in making large audiences laugh, proves even more amusing on the screen. In this local comedy, which is called “A Takapuna Scandal,” Hector St. Clair has for a supporting cast Mona Jeffries, a beautiful Auckland girl who recently won the Amami beauty contest; a bevy of Auckland bathing beauties, and a large crowd of professional players. The scores for the comedy are Milford, Takapuna, Luna Park, Queen Street and other parts of Auckland city. This com-’y shows vast ingenuity and resource in keeping the laughter at high pitch for 20 minutes. The big feature on the programme is “Eve’s Lover.” Irene Rich is the Eve of the title; in this case Eve Burnside, a .millionaire business woman, who conducts her own steel mills with a fighting efficiency that indicates there is no place in her heart for tender love sentiment. Yet Eve does acquire a lover; a somewhat weak, but fascinating pretender, Baron Geralde Maddox. Once her heart is captured, Eve learns to love with all of the pentup emotion of a strictly disciplined life. To her, it is first love; to the Ii .on, it is his last. Disillusioned when she learns of the Baron’s past performances, she leaves him to return to business. How the Baron, with his gay courage, wins her back and si.ves her control of the steel plant, makes a story full of exciting incidents.

Bert Lytell, as the Baron, has never been more perfectly cast since the clays when he starred as Charley Steele in 'The Right of Way,” and Irene Rich, as Eve, is as exquisitely adorable as she was in “A Lost Lady.” Sharing honours with these two are Clara Bow. as a piquantly alluring little tiger-cat of the Baron’s bachelor clays, and Willard Louis, as a steel magnate, whose business ruthlessness is matched only by his softness at amusement times. A particularly fine programme of music has been arranged by Mr. Fred Mumford. conductor of the All Soloists’ Orchestra, to accompany the picture. The musi cal interlude is the entracte from

“Misrnon,” and will delight all music lovers. The overture is “Tancredi,” one of the greatest standard overtures.