MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“WOLF’S CLOTHING” In “Wolf's Clothing:,” the Warner Brothers’ picture starring: Monte Blue, the Majestic Theatre has one of the most diverting: pictures of the season. Bounded upon Arthur Somers Roche’s story, it tells a tale that recalls the spirit of O. Henry. For here New York is once more transformed into Bagdad-on-the-Subway, and once more adventure comes to commonplace people and turns them into types of true romance.

Like a character in the Arabian Nights, Barry Saline, a subway guard, is transported into scenes of great pomp and circumstance, and whirled through a night of mad excitement. The night is New Year’s Eve and the place is New York. A gang of crooks are out to get 50,000 dollars in loot and Barry Baline finds himself out to get the crooks.

Playing opposite him is Patsy Ruth Miller, as a society girl who wants to see life without a chaperone. She is out to capture her freedom. She captures, instead, the affections of the stibway guard. The Majestic management has the reputation of showing only the best of short films. This week's programme is exceptionally good, and is composed of an Eve’s Review, showing among other things, broadcasting from 2LO for the first time, the sweetest feathered songster, the English nightingale—the walled cities of Britain —British coal barges at Liverpool—Swiss Miss (.the worlds’ tallest woman taking her daily swim) and “The Glory That Was.” Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire; and the latest Fox comedy, “A Spanish Omelette”; “Around Parisian Lance Clubs,” is an attractive film novelty showing the joy of life amidst the night clubs of the city which knows the meaning of joy. Last, but not least, the Majestic News showing testing new balloons, speed boats in action; the Prince of Wales opening Peace Bridge, Canada; the Japanese flying kite (the | world’s largest: exploring the White Nile; and bull fighting in France. A superb musical * programme is i provided by Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra. The Orchestra mounts the stage for Mendelssohn’s 'Concerto,” one of the most beautiful orchestral interludes ever presented at this theatre. This glistening, brilliant ■composition is rendered by Mr. Vincent Aspey, Auckland’s talented IS-year-old violinist, who is accompanied by the Majestic Orchestra.