MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT Variety is the keynote of to-day’s programme at the Majestic. The management has arranged for a supreme combination of the best in entertainment. There will not be a dull moment. The whole programme sparkles and moves with high speed to a grand finale. The chief feature will be the Fox film. "Paid to Love.” with George O Brien and Virginia Valli in the leading roles. J. Farrell Macdonald, as the rich American, who. of course, substitutes for Sir Daniel Cupid, is as funny a comedian as he ever was which is saying a great deal. The story of “Paid to Love” tells of a young prince who was more interested in machinery than girls. His father, the king, desired an heir and ,vas displeased. Then, with the aid of the globe-trotting Xankee. he rinds the Parisian dancing girl, hoping that she will arouse the prince’s belated fancy for the fair.

She does. But the king had expected it to be merely a temporary iiftair such as princes are said to indulge in for sport, after which a lady of royal blood would attract his youthful highness. It doesn’t work out that way, but everybody is happy and the prince does finally marry. The musical programme to be presented this evening by the Majestic Orchestra under Mr. WhitefordWaugh, has every promise of being up to their usual high standard. This popular combination will render as its overture “Massenillio” (Auber) and will include in the incidental music rendered “Daffodils” (Hadlev), cornet and clarinet duet from “Norma” (Beltini), “Chausonette” (Baron), “Euryanthe” (Weber), “Japonaise Suite” (Yaraada) and “Silhouettes” i Henry Hadley.

A special attraction on the musical programme will be the appearance on the stage of the Majestic String Quartet, comprising Messrs. Haydn Murray, Carl Whitmore, E. Engel and H. Engel, who will present a short programme of popular airs. Included in the brilliant array of supporting pictorial attractions is a very interesting New Zealand scenic, “Salmon Running”; an hilarious comedy. “Twenty Legs Under the Sea,” in which Richard Walling, the popular Fox comedian, appears as an enterprising publicity agent who stages an international swimming race in an endeavour to arouse interest in an hotel. Among the many scenes in the Majestic News are scenes of two men from Sumatra trying their luck in the movies, the latest airplane news, a cross-country steeplechase in New York, famous jockeys versus famous boxers at football, the christening of the H.M.S. Devonshire, the most thrilling race of the year at Newmarket. England, the funeral of the Marquess of Cambridge, Ruth Elder arrives home and for modern Eve. the latest in Parisian fashions. In the Eve’s Review are scenes of workers repairing the Crystal Palace, a natural film of the porcupine, the latest vovelty in kiddies’ toys, and “the gem of' the Isle,’’ Ventnor.