“ROOKIES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 173, 12 October 1927, Page 19

“ROOKIES”

THE MAJESTIC’S LATEST A balloon basket is not exactly the proper place to make love, and most lovers would put off their efforts until reaching a safer place, especially if the big bag were running away, but such is no; the case in “Rookies,” Metro-Gold’vyn-Mayer’s new comedy, which introc uces Karl Dane and George IC Arthur as a wonderful comedy team. The new picture will®be presented at the Majestic Theatre on Friday, and lias a citizens’ training camp as its background. /Under the directorial guidance of Sam Wood, famous for his. direction of many of. Gloria Swanson’s pictures, it Is replete with laughs and thrills, the latter coming from the perilous aviation stunts. Karl Dane, the renowned “Slim” of “The Big Parade,” and George K. Arthur, famous for his humorous parts in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures, incluling “Pretty Ladies,” “The Boob” and “The Waning Sex,” make a capital comedy team, with Dane in the role of a hard-boiled sergeant, and Arthur playing the part of a luckless young trainee under his command. They fall i:.i love with the same girl, and the complications which follow' make one c f the funniest pictures eveir screened. The girl in the case is played by pretty Marveline Day. the heroine of “The Barrier” and many other Metro-Goldwyn-Maver pictures; Louise Lorraine. Frank Currier, E. H. Calvert, Tom O’Brißn, Charles Sullivan, Lincoln Steadman, Gene Stone are also included in the exceptionally wellchosen supporting cast.