MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“THE UNDERSTANDING HEART” Another sparkling programme, produced on a scale seldom surpassed, will be shown at the Majestic to-morrow. The supporting programme contains a New Zealand scenic, of plantation scenes in Samoa, entitled “A Garden of the South Seas.” Then comes the Majestic News and Eve’s Review, which contains views of Liverpool Cathedral. A screamingly funny Hamilton Lloyd comedy entitled "Jonah Jones” completes the first part of the programme. The popular Campbell Boys, who were appearing at the Majestic a few months ago, are paying a return visit. They will delight everyone with their clever playing on the concertinas. Both classical and popular numbers will be included in their programme. The Majestic’s new orchestra, under the direction of Mr. J. Whiteford-Waugh, will include the following gems in their musical programme: “Carissima” (Elgar); "Barcarolle” (Rubinstein); “Songs from Eliland” (Fielitz), and “Scherzo” from

“Midsummer Night’s Bream” (Men delssohn).

The preservation of Uncle Sam’s vast acreage of timber lands, so that posterity may have wood with which to build homes, ties for railroads, and the thousands of other uses timber is put to, forms the romantic background of “The Understanding Heart,” Cosmopolitan’s filmisation of Peter B. Kyne’s story of the love of a girl lookout for a forest ranger, which comes to the Majestic to-morrow, with Joan Crawford. Francis X. Bushman, jun., Carmel Myers, and Rockliffe Fellowes in the cast. The locale of “The Understanding Heart” is the Klamath national forest of Northern California —one million acres of virgin timber land. In preparation for the filming of this story, the Metro-Gold wynMayer studio had the co-opera'ion of various forestry officials. including Wallace Hutchinson, assistant forester of the California district of the United States national forest reserves. Bata gathered by the research department of the studio was a startling revelation that should be passed on to the general public. It was revealed that destructive forest fires and careless cutting of virgin timber under the old method of managing the forest preserves have left standing less timber than will be consumed in the United States in the next century. Fifty thousand fires rage annually in the national forest reservos. Seventy per cent, of such destructive fires are the result of carelessness of man—unextinguished camp fires and careless smoking. Sixteen to twenty mi lions of acres of national forest are burned annually; direct monetary loss of 25 million dollars, and indirect losses running into hundreds of millions. Onelialf of the remaining virgin timber is now in only three States of the Union —California, Oregon, and Washington.