MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“SADIE THOMPSON” COMING To-morrow night at the Majestic Theatre, “Silk Legs” and the brilliant supporting programme accompanying it will have their final screening. To-morrow will also see the final appearance on the stage of Miss Christina Ormiston, the popular Auckland soprano, who has been delighting all by her charming singing. Her numbers include Schubert’s "Serenade,” and a delightful little lullaby, “Hat Fat Lil* Fellow with His Mammy’s Hyes.” Commencing on Friday will be "Sadie Thompson,” adapted from Somerset Maugham’s world-famous play, “Rain,” starring Gloria Swanson. It is the story of a tremendous emotional conflict between an outcast of San Francisco’s underworld and a reformer. The picture was directed by Raoul Walsh, who also plays the role of Marine Sergeant O’Hara; other members of the cast are Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici. Charles Lane, Florence Midgley, James A. Marcus, and Will Stanton. Miss Swanson and Director Walsh first took steps to assure proper casting, and to that end various characterisations of the story might attain a uniformly high standard. And in selection of the cast they were able to exercise a free hand, without any consideration other than individual merit entering inter the matter —the result being the strongest cast yet assembled in the producer-star’s support. The cast is augmented by a group of Samoan natives, headed by Chief Tui Poi, whose ancestral home is within a short distance of Pago Pago, the locale of the story. A company of marine types, many of them former members of the “devil dogs,” also appear in the picture, with a captain of the Marine corps as technical adviser. On the supporting programme will be the ever-popular Majestic News, an Eve’s Review and a merry comedy, “Deaf. Dumb and Diffy.” “Mildred and Connie,” of the "Diplomats,” will appear on the stage at the Majestic in their clever vocal and instrumental act, which includes the trumpet, piano, cornet, trombone, violin and harp. Never before have so many instruments been played by two such charming girls. This clever musical interlude has been described as a “riot of mirth and musical genius.” A bright and appropriate musical programme will be provided by Mr. Wliiteford-Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra.

Ronald Colir.an states that "The Scarlet Pimpernel,” another Baroness Orczy novel, is under consideration as one of his starring pictures. Baroness Orczy, a Hungarian, and now a resident of Paris, is the author of “Leatherface,” from which "Two Lovers” was adapted as the last picture in which Mr. Colman and Miss yilma Banky appeared as the stars.