MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

BRIGHT PROGRAMME Of all bright and varied entertainment presented at the Majestic Theatre the programme now showing ranks with the best, and should attract record audiences during the week. Mr.. Jack Lumsdaine, “Australia’s Whispering Baritone,” who has been touring New Zealand with marked success, is paying a short return visit. Items rendered include the most popular from his extensive repertoire; and also some entirely new songs and stories. “When Autumn Leaves are Falling,” “Mary Lou,” as well as several others, are sung in his own inimitable way. Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s popular new Majestic Orchestra renders as its overture, “Poet and Peasant” (Suppe). This is in response to many repeated public requests. A bright, appropriate musical programme, has been arranged, and musical gems included are “Carnival Venitien” (Burgeim), “Eili, Eili” (Simon Katz’s traditional Yiddish Melody), “Vanity Fair” (Percy Fletcher), and “Moonlight on the Hudson” (G. D. Wilson). The supporting pictorial programme includes “White Island,” a New Zealand scenic, claimed to be one of the best yet produced. Sinister yet fascinating, “the wonder of the Bay of Plenty” is always an object of intense interest. Remarkable

cenes of the crater and blow-holes ar epicted. Everyone who attended Majestic’ Girl Week” a short time ago will re

member the beautiful girls who appeared in “Girls,” the comedy described as “the jazz version of O. Henry’s story.” These: girls are appearing in "Wine, Women and Sauerkraut.” It is indeed a brilliant gem comedy. The ever-popular Majestic News contains scenes fram the latest Chamberlain and Levine flying pictures, Greenwich Observatory photographing the recent total eclipse of the sun, and the restoration of the famous Rlieims Cathedral, which was destroyed by shellfire during the Great War. Included in the Eve’s Review is a lesson on "How to Dance the Flat Charleston,” and last but not least, an English scenic, “Beautiful Essex,” showing Ugley, one of its most charming villages. "Frisco Sally Levy,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s new picture, featuring the vivacious Sally O'Neil, which is the chief feature on the bill at the Majestic, is a brilliant comedy romance of family life in a big city. Its scenes are laid in San Francisco. “Sally” is the stormcentre of a Jewish-Irish home—her father being Jewish and her mother Irish. Two suitors appear for “Sally’s” hand, one a wealthy Jewish broker and the other an Irish traffic policeman. ! After thrilling intrigue, comedy, pathos and romance, the family solves its prob- | lem. Directed by William Beaudine, and portrayed by an unusually brilliant cast, including Charles Delaney, Roy D’Arcy, Kate Price and Tenen Holtz, “Frisco Sally Levy” is a delightfully entertaining picture.

Gertrude Astor has been signed for a principal role in Warners’ “Ginsberg the Great,” the tiitle of George Jessel’s new starring picture for Master Picture release- The leading feminine role has been assigned to Audrey Ferris, a new Warner “find,”