MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 175, 14 October 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

ANOTHER LAUGHTER WEEK Sparkling comedy, variety in interesting supporting films and excellent music will again be the principal features of the new programme, commencing at the Majestic Theatre today. “Rookies,” “the biggest and funniest comedy of all time,” will be the chief picture, while Miss Ormiston will make a welcome reappearance. The numbers to be rendered by Miss Ormiston are the new national anthem of New Zealand, “Land of Promise,“ words by the late Annette Hayward, and the music by Alfred Hill, to be sung for the first time, and “Down in the Forest,” Landon Ronald, and a flute obligato by Mr. Frank Poore. “Rookies” features the world’s greatest starring comedy team, Karl Dane and George K. Arthur. Ask Marceline Day, the beautiful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player, what spot ever looked the best to her, and she will answer “anywhere on earth.” Miss Day spent an entire week some two or three thousand of feet above the earth in the basket of an observation balloon during the making of “Rookies,” a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture which introduces Karl Dane, the renowned “Slim” of “The Big Parade,” and George K. Arthur, of “The Waning Sex” fame, as a comedy team. The entire company was forced to work with emergency pack-parachutes strapped about their shoulders, to be used in the event of the balloon bursting or getting out of control. It was Miss Day’s first experience in the air —and her last, she hopes! The new picture was directed by Sam Wood, and includes Frank Currier, Tom O'Brien, E. H. Calvert, Charles Sullivan, Lincoln Steadman and other favourites in the cast. A bright and interesting supporting programme is also to be shown. The Majestic News contains a large variety of interesting subjects, among which are views of Byrd’s flight to Paris, canoeing thrills over the .rapids on 1 the Cowichan River, British Columbia, and the first pictures of thrilling greyhound racing with tin hares in Mexico. For the dancing enthusiasts is an exhibition of the French Tango by Mr. Casani end his partner, the London experts. The six steps are illustrated in slow motion. An added attraction will be a very beautiful scenic, “Riq de Janeiro.” An excellent comedy, concludes the supporting programme. The musical programme is an entertainment in itself. A. special orchestral interlude, “L’Ooiseau Mouche” (E. Damare), with a piccolo solo by Mr. Frank Poore, will be featured. Other numbers included in the incidental music are “Four Spanish Rebels” (Luzatti), “Story of the Three Bears” (Coates). “March and Procession of Bacchus” (Delibes). “Carnival Venetian” (Burglein), “The Solvejg Song” (Grieg) and two sketches, “Joy and Sorrow” (Sniek).