MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

BIG PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT One of the brightest and best programmes shown in Auckland for some months opens at the Majestic Theatre to-day. With the opening bars of a stirring military march one feels 3ure that a programme extraordinary is to be screened, and it is. First on the big list of pictorial attractions is a delightfully amusing Aesop Fable, “Amelia Comes Back.” followed by the popular'Majestic Magazine composed of many notable scenes, among which are scenes of the Italian artillery in training, penguins at the London Zoo, hunting wild geese, a huge bridge wrecked by explosion, and shoe styles for 1928. A highly diverting comedy, “ITkelele Shieks,” and a delightful Eve’s Review with scenes of the Oxford students’ chilly race in the snow, the Waratahs beaten by Scotland at Edinburgh, a lucky Eton boy proceeding home from school in his airplane, a commercial airplane for Australia, Christmas scenes on a naval training ship; “Dresses and Tresses,” hairdressing exhibition; “Shake Your Feet,” the new Hippodrome revue, and a beautiful English scenic, “Lincoln, the City of the Fen Country.” Then comes the chief pictorial attraction, an epic production of New York, a story which will appeal to everyone. Now and then a picture is released which shows fairly accurately some one phase of the city, but never before has the vast panorama which extends from the Battery to the Bronx been unrolled on any screen. “East Side, West Side,” as a book, and “East Side, West Side,” as a picture, has sought honestly to do this very thing. It has what so many books and pictures lack completely—the background of a really big idea, and the additional merit of a strong plot to build against it. An exceptional cast presents the dramatic Riesenberg story with feeling and rare truth to detail, George O’Brien and Virginia Valli are the principals. Others well known on stage and screen are J. Farrell Macdonald, Dore Davidson. Sonia Nodulsky, June Collyer. John Miltern, Holmes Herbert, Frank Dodge, Dan Wolheim, John Dooley. John Kearney, Edwin Garvey, Frank Allsworth, Gordon Macßea and Harold Levett. A most delightful musical programme has been arranged by Air. Whiteford-Waugh, for his talented Majestic Orchestra. This popular .musical combination will render as an interlude, a unique orchestral novelty, “Turkish Patrol,” and will feature among the many musical gems rendered. “Russkaya 1 Trepak” (Ruber.stein), “Meditation” (Tchaikowsky), “Fingals Cave” (Mendelssohn), “The “Owl’s Lament” (Trinkaus), “Suite Tyrolienne” (Steffano), “Prelude” to “Lohengrin” (Wagner), and “Precious Gems” (Lindemann). The proverbial ‘Tuck of the Irish” will never be diminished by the fortunes of Sally O’Neil! Right on top of her success in “The Callahans and the Murphys,” she was chosen to play the featured feminine role in “The Lovelorn.” Sally O’Neil can portray hoydenish Irish colleens better than anybody else on the screen to-day. The new story is a human interest drama, with a comedy twist, and has as its background a great newspaper, and the thousands of lovelorn hearts who write their troubles to Miss Fairfax. The cast portraying the leading roles are Molly O’Day, Larry Kent, Charles Delaney, James Murray, George Cooper and Allan Forrest.