MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 387, 22 June 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

MOST ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME Again to-night the Majestic management is offering to the Auckland picturegoers a programme which should stand high on the list of entertainment achievements. For not only will there be the usual very attractive pictorial and musical programmes, but Princess Te Puea’s Maori Maids and Warriors will present another delightful programme, even more amazing and sensational than that of last week. “The Divine Woman,” with alluring Greta Garbo in the leading role, is the chief pictorial attraction. “The Divine Woman” gives us an opportunity to see this actress outside the backgrounds of magnificence and elegance which have always marked her pictures.. If anybody Imagined that Greta’s greatness was in any way due to her wardrobe and her elegant backgrounds they are due to be undeceived. She proves quite as capable an actress against a Montmartre background as she is in the role of theatrical idol of Paris. In “The Divine Woman” Miss Garbo has one of the best vehicles of her career and her best cast to date. Lars Hanson proves himself a great actor in the role of the French soldier who desetred his regiment, stole and served a term of imprisonment for the girl he loved. As the theatrical impresario Lowell Sherman gives one of the best performances he has ever offered on stage or screen. Mention should also be made of the marvellous work of Polly Moran, Dorothy Gumming, Johnny Mack Brown and other members of the brilliant cast. An amusing Lloyd Hamilton comedy, “Waiting”—a comedy of waiters, the Majestic Magazine, a short film of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, and a Fox Variety film concludes the pictorial programme. Mr. Whiteford-Waugh and his Majestic Orchestra will provide the usual delightful musical programme. One has only to glance at the musical gems to be played during the screening of the photoplay to realise that this will be so. for among those included is a selection from “The Liebeslied,” from “Walkure.” “Love’s Sweet Hour” (Otvas), “Because You Say Good-bye” (Levy), and selections from those wellknown favourites, “The Golden Cockerel” (Rimsky-Korsakov). “Hanbanera.” from “Carmen,” “Maritana,” “Cavaleria Rusticana.” and “O Night of Love." from “Tales or Hoffmann.” The following wer rehtetessl