MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “BUTTONS” Despite scientific inventions that remove hardships from life on the ocean and make the modern liner a great floating hotel, there is still much adventure and gripping drama on the high seas. This is strikingly demonstrated in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, “Buttons,” which is being screened at the Majestic Theatre. This is an ultra-modern sea story, with Jackie Coogan in the ultra-modern role of a pageboy, and it is crammed with thrills, with adventure, comedy, and drama, and closes with a sensationed shipwreck. Lars Hanson, Gertrude Olmsted, Roy D’Arcy, Polly Moran, and Paul Hurst appear in the eastStrange and uncanny 'goings-on that chill the blood and grip the imagination occur in a haunted manor house in England during the weird course of Lon Chaney’s latest and greatest film, “London After Midnight,” a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, which will be shown at the Majestic on Friday. Chaney plays the part of a master detective from Scotland Yard, who

employs hypnotism. the tricks of spirit mediums and supernatural illusions in solving a baffling murder. Untangling the mystery, he discovers that a five-year-old 'suicide’’ was also

a murder, and that both crimes were committed by the same person, a benevolent-appearing old man. because of obstacles which stood in his path to the complete possession of a young and beautiful girl. “London After Midnight” is supermelodrama- It seethes with dark superstition, eerie adventure, and aweinspiring, modern versions of black magic. It is an original by Tod Browning, who also directed it. Marceline Day appears in the leading feminine role. Others of note in the cast include Conrad Nagel, Henry n. Walthall, Polly Moran. and Claude King.