MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 172, 11 October 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“IS ZAT SO?”

There is not a dull moment in the current programme at the Majestic Theatre. From beginning to end it sparkles and radiates the “cheer germ” in a remarka.ble way. The chief feature of this entertainment is the screen version of the famous stage play, “Is Zat So?” starring Edmund Lowe and George O’Brien. The handsome George O’Brien, and Edmund Lowe, are a team of male stars hard to surpass in audience popularity. So it goes without saying that if “Is Zat So?” their picture in which they apppear together, had nothing else to recommend it, the film would be worth going to see. But these two, playing the roles of a prize fighter and his manager, the forme/ by O’Brien and the latter by Lowe. *re in the screen version of a play that sent blase Broadway audiences into roars of laughter. Yesterday at the Majestic it also set the audience into peals of hearty laughter. This is one picture that is sure to please every taste. There is virile action for the men folks in the fight scenes, tender love interest in a doublebarrelled love story for the ladies and intresting episodes for the children in which the wonder child. Philippe De Lacy, has an important part. And above all, there is plenty of fun for everyone. Miss Christina Ormiston renders three very fine numbers, “A Birthday,” “Little Curly-headed Babe,” and “1 Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” from “The Bohemian Girl,” in each of which her brilliant soprano voice is heard to great advantage. She is accompanied by a violin obbligato by Vincent Aspey. Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s New Majestic Orchestra presents an excellent musical programme. Verdi’s “Force of Destiny” is played as an overture. Other gems included in the incidental music rendered are “Symphonic Fantastique” (Berlioz). “Scenes from Imagery Ballet” (Coleridge-Taylor), “Ballet Suite’ (Lacombe), selections from “H.M.S. Pinafore” (Sullivan), and “Rustle of Spring” (Sinding). The attractive supporting programme is composed of a variety of short films. First on the list is the ever-ipopular and interesting Majestic News, composed of the latest world news. Then comes the Eve’s Review, with scenes of the welcome home of the Duke and Duchess of York, the Tilden-Lacoste tennis match and the latest European and American flying pictures. Also included in theEve’s Review is; a very beautiful English scenic, “Jaunts Round Jersey.” There is also a very unusual comedy. “The Silent Vow,” and a New Zealand Government scenic, “The Gold Coast.”