MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 375, 8 June 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“LA BOHEME” Not for just a day, not for just a week, not for just a month, but always does the Majestic Theatre management present a programme, incomparable for its interest, beauty and charm, and to-day they are offering another of their renowned entertainments. First and foremost on the list of attractions is “La Boheme,” superb production with Lilian Gish and John Gilbert in the starring roles. “La Boheme” is the truest, tenderest and sweetest love story ever written of the real Bohemian Paris. The tragic story of Mimi, the little seamstress of the Latin Quarter, and her poet lover Rodolphe, comes vividly to the screen in this picture. Miss Gish, wistful heroine of many famous plays, has one of the crowning roles of her career in Henry Murger’s classic, produced on a lavish scale by MetroGoldwyn - Mayer, under the direction of King Vidor. “La Boheme” is one of the most appealing heart- «•••-«- - interest stories in the whole field of the classics. The screen version was not taken from the opera itself, but from the original Henri Murger novel, of which the opera story was one episode. The supporting cast is notable. John Gilbert plays the leading male role of “Rodolphe,” and others in the cast are Roy D’Arcy, Renee Adoree, Karl Dane. Edward Everett Horton, Gino Corrado, Frank Currier, George Hassell, and other well-known players. Actual reproductions of the quaint Quartier Latin of Paris were constructed for the new picture, Miss Gish’s first American made production in some y’ears.

The photoplay will be accompanied by a special musical prologue, with Miss Etta Field as the soloist. The numbers to be sung by Miss Field. Auckland’s premiere soprano, include “Musette’s Song.” Mr. J. Whiteford-Waugh and his Majestic Orchestra will provide their usual high class musical programme, and will play throughout the feature picture, a special orchestral score.

Then there is a strong supporting programme, which accompanies the main attractions, and is composed of the Majestic Magazine with scenes of demonstrations of Old Spanish dances, airplanes bombing derelict ships, the River Thames in Flood, skiing thrills, animals at the zoo posing for young artists, and airships taking supplies from motor-cars; a popular Pathe Review, and an amusing comedy, “Somewhere in Somewhere.”

Airplanes are being constantly utilised in the making of motion pictures and since the tremendous increase in interest in aviation caused by the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic flights pictures built around airplanes or having an aviation sequence are on the upgrade in popularity.