MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 13

MAJESTIC

LAUGHTER WEEK

The history o£ the Majestic Theatre sparkles with entertainment achievements. Among them were such incomparable programmes as “Laughter Week," and “Comedy Week,” which provided an ideal entertainment. The management is now presenting the crowning achievement, “ Laughter Week Encore.” Pretty girls by the dozen and a cast of principals in which youth predominates are some of the outstanding features of the delightful comedy drama, “Rich But Honest,” which had its first presentation at the Playhouse re-, cently. The recent Fox Film release, starring J. Farrell McDonald, deals with the love affair of a pretty working girl, played by Nanpy Nash, and her two admirers, played by Clifford Holland, in the role of a garage mechanic, and a rich young man, played by Charles Morton. In addition to the young players already mentioned, the performance 'of Ted McNamara, who became famous as the fun-loving marine in “What Price Glory,” deserves praise, as well as that of Marjorie Beebe in the role of Miss Nash’s chum. Doris Lloyd, Tyler Brooke and Ernie Shields, too, help make “Rich But Honest” a splendid and wholly satisfying entertainmept. The supporting programme is exceptionally strong this week. An outstanding attraction is “The Maori Messiah,” which was filmed by the wellknown producer, Mr. Rudall Hayward, on a recent visit to the wild Urewera country. The Majestic News is largely composed of a series of local events, such as the Avondale races, the visit 6f the Imperial Airways Mission, and glimpses at the Auckland Zoo. Felix is shown in another amusing black-and-white cartoon, while a juvenile comedy, starring “Big Boy,” is exceptionally amusing. Mr. Whiteford-Waugh again leads the orchestra in a splendid musical programme. “The Southern Wedding” (Letter) makes a very unusual and a very popular orchestral noveltv. The bride is 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” (Liszt), "Arabian Serenade” (Langey), “Legende JSasque” (Maquarre), “Co'ppelia Ballet Music (Delibes), “Serenade” (Drdla), “Manon” Opera (Massenit), “Rustic Revels” (Fletcher), “Allegro Vivace,” from “Symphony” (Schubert).