MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 216, 1 December 1927, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“BECKY” TO-MORROW

This evening Majestic patrons will have their last and only chance of seeing the great laughter programme, headed, by “Cradle Snatchers,” at that theatre, for to-morrow commences another popular programme, with “Becky” as the chief picture. Teeming with the colour and thrills of city life, and with a human element underlying it all, “Becky,” the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, takes you right into the heart of a little shop girl who is transformed into a revue favourite. Her trials and escapades pulsate with life itself; and laughs, heart-throbs, tears and thrills chase each other in swiftly moving sequences. Sally O’Neil, the heroine of “Mike,”

“Slide, Kelly, Slide,” and “Frisco Sally Levy,” has never appeared more winsome and lovable than she does % the title-role, and reveals an unsusi \ _ed depth of feeling in the emotional scenes.

Playing opposite Miss O’Neil is that sterling actor, Owen Moore. He plays the role of “Dan Scarlett,” a “man about town,” who is regenerated by his love for “Becky.” The part has plenty of scope for the whimsical humour of this player, which he combines with some splendid emotional acting. Harry Crocker plays the part of

“John Carroll Estabrook,” a young aristocrat who tails in love with “Becky,” and Gertrude Olmsted has the role of his sister “Nan.” Mack Swain, Claude King and many other favourites are included in the well chosen supporting cast.

Supporting this picture is the latest Lupino Lane comedy, in which London’s leading laughmaker. drops his monocle and English make-up and becomes a six-year-old “Naughty Boy.” Among the many scenes included in the popular Eve’s Review and Majestic News are those showing Eve trying her hand at cricket, Maurice Chester’s trained dogs, a beautiful film of Severn Valley; latest flying news, George Young training for Marathon swim across Lake Ontario, French flying aces, men hold the latest beauty contest in America, Chicago girls’ athletic sports, France and America fight for Davis Cup, Lacoste wins from Johnston, scenes of Tilden and Cochet playing, a beautiful scene showing the tame pigeons being fed in Venice, and motor races up Pike’s Peak, Colorado. Last but not least in the supporting pictorial programme is the New Zealand scenic, “By Westland Lakes,” showing scenes of rimu forests between Hokitika and Franz Josef.

Mr. Whiteford-Waugh and his famous Majestic Orchestra will present a superb musical programme, and will play as their overturn. “Der Freischutz” LWeber). For further enjoyment, a delightful dance fantasy, “The Gambol of the Goblins,” arranged by and featuring Mile Valeska, will be presented. This fantasy will be charmingly enacted bv a bevy of Auckland’s brightest children and the Majestic Baby Ballet.