MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“CAPTAIN SALVATION” A programme which would be worthy of presentation at any of the world’s leading theatres is being offered at the Majestic Theatre. Heading the pictorial bill is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s great sea epic, “Captain Salvation,” with Lars Hanson, Marceline Lay and Pauline Starke. “Captain Salvation”—saga of the seven seas—one of literature’s most beautiful love stories, set in a terrific setting of struggle, elemental emotion and a maelstrom of human motives, is a paradox in pictures. The new Cosmopolitan screen drama is one of the most astounding contributions to the screen drama in years. A love romance is told in a volcano of human emotions; with characters that represent the brutal, the fearless, the godless;' the man who sailed the old clipper ships and looked death and worse in the face with a grin. It is realistic to the point of almost terror at times; it is a gigantic drama of the adventure and lure of the sea—but these are only the background to the central theme; the love of a boy and a girl enmeshed in a plot such as few authors have ever dreamed. The play, adapted from the novel by Frederick William Wallace, was given in magnificent production at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, and on an old-time clipper ship on the high seas, where much of the action was taken on an actual boat such as the “hell ship” of the story. An added attraction at the Majestic is the appearance on the stage of Mr. Burrell O’Malley, the well-known Auckland tenor. The numbers rendered by Mr. O’Malley are Lei Rigo’s ‘‘Thank God for a Garden” and Toselli’s “Serenata,” in both of which his fine tenor voice is heard to advantage. Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s New Majestic Orchestra provides an excellent musical entertainment. Weber’s overture “Oberon” is specially featured as an interlude. Other musical gems included in the incidental music are “Chopiniana Suite,” “Walls of China” (Lively), “Barcarolle” (Godard), “Romance” (Tschaikowsky), “Hate and Love” (Sameltini), “Adagio Lamentose” (Tschaikowsky), “Andante Religiose” and some of the latest foxtrots just arrived from London. Additional pictorial attractions include “More Anzac Memories,” “From Hooge to Bailleul,” showing scenes of “Sanctuary” "Wood, Hill 60, Plug Street, Gray’s Inn, Poperinghe, and Mount Kemmel; an interesting New Zealand scenic, “Strawberry Time,” in the “Winterless North,” showing all the stages from picking to jam-mak-ing and tinning; a British scenic, “On the Norfolk Broads and Canals”; and exhibition dances by Harry Roye and Billee Maye, of London Embassy Club. A highly-diverting comedy. “Live Cowards,” with A 1 St. John and a brilliant cast of animals, concludes the supporting programme.