MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 404, 12 July 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“SADIE THOMPSON” TO-MORROW To-night “Silk Legs” will have its final screening at the Majestic Theatre, for to-morrow, “Sadie Thompson,” from Somerset Maugham’s startling and widely-discussed play, “Rain,” now a sensational picture of the South Seas, with Gloria Swanson as the notorious “Sadie,” will have its initial screening in Auckland. The story of “Sadie Thompson” de tails the conflict between an outcast of San Francisco’s underworld, from

whom the picture takes its name, and a reformer, “Alfred Atkinson,” who encounters the girl at Pago Pago in the South Seas and, considering her a menace, determines to reform her. At Pago Pago, she meets “Timothy O’Hara,” a Marine

sergeant who, in spite of his gruff, hard boiled manner, is really a boy at heart, with a quality of bashfulness that makes an instant appeal to the worldly “Sadie.” The “devil-dog,” in turn, is not averse to the charms of the girl, and as their acquaintance grows he finds in her many appealing qualities that others have not found, perhaps because they have not sought them. Thus, romance touches the two and their love, contrary to expectations, is a thing of tenderness, culminating in “O'Hara’s” proposal of mar- . riage. An added attraction on the programme will be the appearance on the Htage of the Harris Sisters, “Mildred” avid “Connie,” well-known to Majest it.'- and Strand patrons. These two nm’lody girls, “with musical personality*.” will appear in their clever vocal an*i instrumental act, which includes the trumpet, piano, cornet, trombone, and harp. Never before have so marfv instruments been played by two such charming girls. Connie Harris is a natural comedienne with the added deligtits of being a brilliant musician. A bvi&ht supporting programme will be presented, an attractive feature of which is one of the finest coloured scenic films yet screened, “By Killarney X<akes and Fells.” There will also be ,a Majestic News, with scenes of the m*odern May Queen, who flies to Coronation, a Royal Military Tournament, Odin, England’s su-per-submarine, celebrations of Joan of Arc, the Ciueen visits the hospital, and “To-day in Paris.” the latest Parisian fashions. A musical programme will be provided by Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s Majestic Onrhestra.