MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS” Only two more days remain for Majestic patrons to view the big laughter programme at the Majestic Theatre. Heading the bill is a hilarious United Artists’ comedy, “Two Arabian Knights,” with Mary Astor, William Boyd, and Louis Wolheim.

In no sense derived from Omar Khayyam’s tales, the title is explained by the fact that the American buck private and top sergeant are knighted by an emir in Arabia for no good -eason. The private is less concerned with a knighthood than with the emir’s daughter, Anis Bin Adham, who is really Mary Astor. It is said that “Two Arabian Knights” employs divers avenues of laughter, ranging from the hysteria-arousing sequences of the doughboys’ escape through electrified barbed wire surrounding a prison camp to the spectacle of Louis Wolheim in his red flannels. A programme that will be popular with everybody has been arranged for the Majestic Theatre, commencing on Friday. During the daytime a special programme has been arranged for the children. Jackie Coogan’s latest picture, “The Bugle Call,” will delight children and grown-ups alike. With hair short, and in a uniform, Jackie is appearing as a bugle boy in a cavalry post in the new production, a. vivid tale of Indian fights on the famous Bozeman trail, directed by Edward Sedgwick. Claire Windsor and Herbert Rawlinson head the supporting cast, which includes Tom O’Brien, Bodil Hosing, Harry Todd, Sarah Badden, Johnny Mack-Brown, and others of note.

Thrills alternate with frills in William Haines’s latest role of th 6 screen. Besides playing a sensational game of golf in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy, “Spring Fever,” which will be screened at the evening performances, he stages a thrilling automobile chase oyer mountain roads. “The same principle is involved in both,” says the actor; “judging the distance for a difficult golf shot, and judging distance for a rush around a curve in an auto, require the same sort of judgment.” Edward Sedgwick directed the new picture, with Joan Crawford as the heroine, and a notable cast that includes George Fawcett, George K. Arthur. Edward Earle, Lee Moran, Eileen Percy. Bert Woodruff, and many others of note. .

An outstanding feature on th.e programme will be the miniature pantomime, presented by Misses Beryl Nfcttleton and Marjorie Turner, and featuring Master David Lunny, the popular boy soprano, Miss Doreen O’Leary, and Mjss Ira Ardley. The musical programmes presented by the Majestic Orchestra promise to be of exceptionally ligli standard. Among the many musical gems rendered are “Petite Suite” (Chaminade), “Fantasia” (Wolf-Terrari), ‘'Sen eh erazade” (Rimsky-Korsakoff) and “Lohen,grin” (Wagner).