MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 202, 15 November 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“WOLF’S CLOTHING” Some clever effects have been obtained by Roy Del Ruth, the Warner Brothers’ director, in filming “Wolf’s Clothing.” starring Monte Blue with Patsy Ruth Miller, now being screened at the Majestic Theatre. One of the most remarkable is the sequence in which the hero and heroine walk the clouds, in the midst of a swirling crowd of revellers, on New Year’s Eve, along the Great White Way. The hero of the story, the ranting, roaring Barry Baline (played so zestfully by Monte Blue) is a subway guard, tie arrives at the high-hat ball by way of a madman, a hurtling car, hmour, nerve and some other things. And there it is that he meets fate in the person of the pretty and preposterously magnificent Minrfie Humphrey, a society girl who has escaped her chap- j eron and is seeking night-club thrills j Each falls in love at first sight. Blit j what wicked genii are to be met along j the way—before the cross-grained old crook. Captain, marries them at the j point of a revolver. It is on the event of the couple’s first | stroll in raucous, riotous Broadway j when they metaphorically “walk on 1 air” that Del Ruth’s brilliant technique j makes their mental state so beau- { tifully and amusingly tangible. A feature of the programme is the \ orchestral interlude, Mendelssohn’s j “Concerto,” played by Mr. Vincen* j Aspey, the brilliant 18-year-old viol- ; inist, who is accompanied by Mr. j Whiteford-Waugh’s Majestic Orches- i tra.