MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 17

MAJESTIC

BIG NEW PROGRAMME Another unsurpassable programme is ottered at the Majestic this week, with a magnificent feature, and a big supporting pictorial and musical attraction. Of particular topical and local interest is the New Zealand scenic of Samoa. This shows in detail all the beauty spots and points of inj terest about this island, which has j been so prominent irj New Zealand • political affairs lately. The latest : gazettes and five’s fie view are also included in the programme. An hilarious comedy, entitled “Funny Face,” i features a juvenile cast, and “Big i Boy.” The children will enjoy this j one, and it has been specially arranged • for their first week of holidays. The ! musical side of the programme is again one of the most attractive featj tires. Miss Etta Field, who is wellknown to Aucklanders as a brilliant soprano, and who took the part of Aida in the recent production of this opera b\ the Auckland Choral Society and Bohemian Orchestra, will sing ••Homing” (del Biego) and "St. Michaelmas Bay in the Morning” (fiast Hope Martin), in an effective stage setting. Miss Field, recently returned from several years in Europe, where she carried on her musical training under the best masters. Her voice lias a rich tonal quality, and she sings with exquisite feeling. The Majestic’s New Orchestra offers another orchestral feast arranged by Mr. John Wluteford Waugh, which includes “Slavish Rhapsody,’ by Friedman, “Scfenes Napolitaines, “Flight of the Bumble Bee” (Rimsky Korsakoff), “Cavatina” (Raff), “In a Kentish Garden” (Rawlinson), and -Four Spanish Pictures." The chief picture is entitled “Lovers,” a great romance, featuring the screen's famous lovers, Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, , Spain-—the Spain of to-day-—and slander-—the great enemy of to-day. are the locale and motivating menace of the most sensational drama the screen has seen for some time, “Lovers?” which will be screened at the Majestic to-morrow. The ?;ew Metro -Goldwvn-Mayer picture is a gripping romance of love anfi the peril of scandal, and has been dimed on a lavish scale as a starring vehicle for Ramon Novarro, with Alice Terry featured at the head of a splendid cast. It is a play unique in that it has no conventional villain. His place is taken by the invisible tongues of scandal, which blight lives, wreck souls and cast three innocent people into a maelstrom of poisonous lies. The denouement is one of the most remarkable pieces of sheer drama ever brought to the screen. Modern Spain is the locale of the story—a Spain as modern as any other city in Europe to-day. Itamon Novarro is seen as a young playwright, thrown into a sensational scandal, with the wife of his best friend —although both are absolutely innocent. This situation is developed with rare knowledge of dramatic values from one climax to another. The cast, Linder th ' direction of John M. Stahl, is one of special interest, and includes Edward Martindel. Edward Connelly, George K. Arthur, Lillian Leighton, John Miljan, Roy D'Arcy and many other favourites,