MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

SPARKLING VARIETY “A supreme combination of sparkling variety” describes the programme at the Majestic this week. That it is popular is eloquently proved by the crowded houses nightly, and the audiences which leave the Majestic delighted and satisfied. The supporting programme is as attractive as the main feature. The very best in short subjects has been chosen to make this programme a special variety programme. “Variety is the spice of life,” and the Majestic management arranged this week’s bill to give the public something novel and sparkling. The comedy is Lupino Lane’s best effort, and as Lupino Lane is the foremost comedian in two reel comedies, this promises a laughter feast. The best New Zealand scenic yet is “Windy Wellington,” which shows all the beauty spots and points of interest about the capital city. The British scenic shows charming views round Wigan, while a special film of London cabaret shows a dazzling revue programme which is the craze of London at the moment. ??he latest topical budgets of world events are also shown as well as Eve’s Review. The Majestic Orchestra is an entertainment in itself this week, and vies with the pictures for honours. Besides the sparkling accompaniment to the picture programme the orchestra mounts the stage and gives a brilliant entertainment which is appropriately called “the musical hit of 1927.” Against a background of gorgeous colour the orchestra plays 25 popular melodies, and a prize of £1 Is is offered for the correct naming of these popular tunes. Brahms’s “Hungarian Dance” is exquisitely rendered by the orchestra with a xylophone melody brilliantly played by Mr. Alec Ridgway. The chief attraction on the screen, “Tin Hats,” shows the funny side of war and tells the story of three rollicking soldiers in the Army of Occupation. There were a few, a very few men who were just the least bit disappointed and disgusted to think they never had an opportunity to get into the World War argument. It is about these few that Edward Sedgwick spun his rollicking yarn, “Tin Hats.” The story concerns three typical soldiers of the Allied Army, who arrive in the front line trenches just in time to hear the referee announce “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more.” However, the plot thickens when they are sent into Germany with the Army of Occupation, and their subsequent adventures make the war look like three acts of a riotous farce.

Claire Windsor as Elsa Von Bergen, a titled German girl, is the heroine of the story, and with Conrad Nagel supplies the love interest.