MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 302, 13 March 1928, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“FUN IN THE CLOUDS” Anyone who is feeling the least bit blue or down and out, should pay a visit to the Majestic Theatre, where a merry laughter campaign is being carried out. First and foremost in importance on the programme is “Fun in the Clouds,” or “Publicity Madness,” with Lois Moran and Edmund Lowe.

Edmund Lowe has hit his stride as a comedian in “Fun in the Clouds,” in

which he is co-star.ring with Lois Moran.

In this clever advertising yarn, adapted by Andrew Bennison from an Anita Loos story, Lowe is cast as an enterprising, breezy soap salesman, with big ideas and but little cash-on-hand background. It is one of those things in which all of his natural humour and ability to characterise is called forth.

Lois Moran steps out of her dainty old-fashioned roles and has her hair bobbed right in the picture to become a most modern stenographer. Of course she turns out to be the boss's daughter at th e same time, a situation that brings many odd twists to Lowe’s career.

Mr. Whiteford-Waugh and his popular Majestic Orchestra add much to the enjoyment of the entertainment by providing a musical programme which will remain long in the memory of all those who hear it. The artistic possibilities of the flute and clarinet are admirably exploited by Messrs. F. Poore and J. McGregor, respectively, in the haunting “Mad Scene” from “Lucia di Lammermoor,” and in a captivating number, "Two Little Bullrendered throughout the screening of finches- Delightful Spanish airs were

“Romantic Alhambra,” a scenic of Granada, showing the artistic masonry and grandeur of Moorish and Castilian architecture.

An Aesop Fable cartoon, "House Cleaning,” provides another interlude of fun, while an exceedingly funny comedy is flipping Wives,” with Priscilla Dean, Herbert Rawlinson and Stan Laurel. It is the story of a wife who thinks her husband pays her too

little attention, and so to make him jealous engages a man to make love to her. The Majestic Magazine is bigger and brighter than ever this week, and shows some fine scenes of recent shipwrecks and glimpses of the dense fogs in London last November. A novel film showing tanks demolishing wooden houses and, last but not least, a short film showing the latest Parisian fashions complete an excellent programme* _ —* ■—■