MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 180, 20 October 1927, Page 17

MAJESTIC

ANOTHER LAUGHTER WEEK

The laughter boom still continues at the Majestic Theatre. So popular have been the last two weeks of comedy programmes that the Majestic management has arranged for another great laughter picture, “Rich But Honest” —worth millions in laughs. That a man may be rich but honest is the theme of this clever Fox Films comedy drama, which is based on a story by Arthur Somers Roche. This is one picture that gives the rich f young man courting a working girl a chance to prove that wealth is not synonymous with evil intentions in young men who pay court to poor girls. The cast is said to be ideal for the interpretations of the various characters. Nancy Nash is the girl who is poor but honest. Clifford Holland is the rich young man, and Charles Morton the poor one, who court Miss Nash, and J. Farrell Macdonald, one of the leads in “Three Bad Men,” is a Broadway showman. In keeping with the Majestic policy of securing the most novel and unique supporting pictures, “Through Unknown New Zealand,” a visit to “The New Jerusalem,” “In the Wild Urewera Country, to Meet the Maori ‘Messiah/ Rua, and His Seven Wives,” will be screened this week.

The picture shows some beautiful views on the Urewera track, the village and its life, the mission station, Rua and his wives, Rua illustrating his claim to be a “prophet and Messiah,” and, among other interesting items, a real wild tftaha fight by two young Urewera braves. The tiaha was one of the principal weapons used by the Maoris before the advent of the pakeha, but there are very few Maoris to-day who can use one. It is only in out-of-the-way places like the Urewera country that the art flourishes, and a fight enacted against the glorious background of the rugged Urewera Ranges is a spectacle indeed. Other short films included in the supporting pictorial programme are the Majestic News, Eve’s Review, and a very beautiful coloured scenic of Gibraltar. The musical programme presented by the Majestic’s new orchestra under the baton of Mr. Whiteford-Waugh, promises to be exceptionally fine this week. Among the gems included in the incidental music rendered are “Liebestraum” (Liszt), “Arabian Serenade” (Langey), “Legende Basque” (Maquarre), “Coppelia” ballet music (Delibes), “Serenade” CDrdla), “Manon” opera (Massenet), “Rustic Revels” (Fletcher). “Allegro Vivace” from “Symphony” (Schubert).