MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“IS ZAT SO?” Laughter is the keynote to the sparkling programme being offered at the Majestic Theatre, commencing to-day. There is not one big attraction, but six big ones. First and foremost of the programme is the version of the famous stage play, “Is Zat So?” The**e_may be nothing new under the sun, but there is something decidedly novel in the idea of a prize fighter and his manager breaking into high society and staging a bout in the conservatory of a Fifth Avenue mansion and then winning the hearts and hands of two of its inmates. The contrast between the pugilist, played by George O’Brien and the gay man-about-town, played by Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and the fight manager, played by Edmund Lowe, and the society leader, played by Cyril Chadwick, furnish many hilarious episodes. Kathryn Perry, Doris Lloyd, Philippe De Lacy and Dione Ellis have important roles in this merry film. But it is not only a happy picture crowded with laughs; it has its moments of fine pathos as well as many thrilling and exciting scenes. Perhaps of the most attractive features of the Majestic supporting programme are the interesting and popular New Zealand scenic films, which are shown practically every week. This week’s offering, “The Gold Coast,” will be particularly interesting to many, showing as it does Greymouth, Hokitika, the Dobson Mine, Nelson and the Buller. For the tennis enthusiasts there is included in the Majestic News the Tilden and Lacoste tennis match. Other items of interest are England’s welcome to the Duke and Duchess of York on their arrival home from their world tour, Grand Steeplechase of Paris, latest European and American flying pictures, and horse polo in New York. Included in the Eve’s Review is an exhibition of acrobatic dancing by the Piccadilly Hotel Cabaret Troupe, and a beautiful English scenic, “Jaunts Around Jersey.” An additional attraction is the Helen and Warren comedy, “Laugh and Grow Fit.” A musical programme of a very high standard has been arranged for the Majestio’s New Orchestra, by Mr. Whiteford-Waugh. Verdi’s “Force of Destiny” is to be specially featured as an overture. Other musical gems included in the incidental music rendered are “Symphonic Fantastique’’ (Berlioz), “Scenes from Imaginary Ballet” (Coleridge-Taylor), “Ballet Suite” (Lacombe), “H.M.S. Pinafore” (Sullivan). “Rustle of Spring” (Sinding), Gems from “South America” (Smidt), “Chopiniana,” Pot Pourri, and “March and Procession of Bacchus,” from “Sylvia” (Delibes). On the stage will be Miss Christina Ormiston, the brilliant Auckland soprano, who will sing"A Birthday” (with violin obbligato by Vincent Aspey, “I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” from “The Bohemian Girl,” and “Little Curly Headed Babe.”