MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 181, 21 October 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

NEW COMEDY TO-NIGHT The Majestic has echoed and reechoed with happy laughter during the last two weeks and packed houses have testified most eloquently that comedy is what the public wants. Accordingly the Majestic management has arranged for a Laughter Week encore, with “Rich but Honest,” “worth millions in laughs,” as the feature picture, and a dazzling array of musical and pictorial attractions supporting it. 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 1 rich 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 in “Rich but Honest” is Said to be ideal for the interpretations of the various characters. Nancy Nash is the girl who is poor but honest. Clifford Holland, 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. The Majestic Management has again lived up to its reputation and is screening during this week, “The Maori Messiah,” showing Rua, and his seven wives. Mr. Rudall Hayward, the well known film producer, recently visited Rua in his bush stronghold and secured the* first pictures of this unique place and the people who live there. 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 Taiha fight by two young Urewera braves! Included in the supporting programme is a beautifully coloured scenic of Gibraltar, Britain’s stronghold in the beautiful Mediterranean, the Majestic News, Eve’s Review and a cartoon and comedy. The Majestic’s New Orchestra is rendering an orchestral novelty of sparkling originality and humour. The orchestra mounts the stage and against a magnificent background renders “The Southern Wedding” (Lotter). The bride will be represented by the piccolo (Mr. Frank Poore), the groom by the trombone (Mr. Sly) and the clergyman by the bassoon (Mr. Alec Stewart). Other musical gems included in the incidental music rendered are “Liebestraum” (Lizst), “Arabian Serenade” (Langey), “Legende Basque” (Maquarre), “Coppelia Ballet Music” (Delibes), “Serenade” (Drdla), “Manon” Opera (Massenet), “Rustic Revels” (Fletcher), “Allegro Vivace,” from “Symphony” (Schubert).