MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

EMPIRE WEEK A most successful musical and pictorial festival is being carried out at the Majestic this week. As a tribute to our mighty British Empire, the management has arranged “Empire Week.” A special musical and pictorial attraction is entitled “Rule Britannia,” a pageant of the Empire. Accompanied by the strains of stirring music of three great orchestras the Auckland Artillery Band, the Scottish Pipers and the Majestic’s New Orchestra—are special short films, showing scenes of practically every British possession in the wide world. Interspersed are national dances by Valeska and the Majestic Ballet. Pleading the bill is one of the pictorial triumphs of the year, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” from Oscar Wilde’s famous play, and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This work is regarded by Lubitsch as one of the most perfect play. 3 ever written. Irene Rich plays Mrs. Erlynne, the sophisticated charmer who returns to London after many indiscretions, determined to enter society. May McAvoy plays Lady Windermere, and Bert Lytell Lord Windermere, whose marital happiness is threatened because he is land to the fascinating Mrs. Erlynne. Ronald Col man (by arrangement with Samuel Goidwyn) will be seen as Lord Darlington, whose love for Lady Windermere and whose schemes to separate her from her husband, are frustrated by the fascinating Mrs. Erlynne. Edward Martindel plays Lord Augustus, and Helen Dunbar, Carrie Daumery and Billie Bennett are seen as three duchesses. A very attractive programme contains a variety of bright interesting short films. Among these are the Majestic News, Eve’s Review, an English scenic of the famous old Harlech Castle, and “The Fighting Dude,” starring Lupino Lane, London’s leading laughmaker. The musical programme, rendered by Majestic’s New Orchestra, is up to Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s high standard. Other numbers rendered throughout the programme are selections from “The Blue Mazurka” (Lehar) and “The Demon” (Rubinstein), “Three Mask Dances” (Wood), “Lyric Suite” (Brahms). “Exotische Suite” (Renee). Chopin’s “Nocturne and Prelude.” and “Three Famous Pictures” (Haydn Wood).