MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 419, 30 July 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE SMART SET” The Majestic management is again to be complimented on the high standard of entertainment which is presented week after week -at this popular rendezvous. From the moment the Majestic Orchestra strikes up the opening bars of a bright military? march the programme moves with high speed. Following the march a unique British nature film, “Tale of a Dogfish,” showing unusual glimpses of life under the sea, is flashed on the screen.

An outstanding attraction on the supporting programme is a short special film, showing Tom Heeney, New Zealand’s idol, in training at his camp. There is also screened a delightfully interesting Majestic News, with the latest pictorial news from all parts of the world, and an “Our Gang” comedy.

Mildred and Connie Harris, the two well-known melody girls, contribute another bright programme of song, humour and-instrumental music. “Connie,” who is a budding” comedienne, is a great fafvourite with Majestic patrons, while Mildred is no less popular in view of her talented playing on the piano and harp. The musical programme provided by Mr. Whiteford Waugh and his popular Majestic Orchestra, is an entertainment in itself. Selections from the popular number “Rio Rita” are played delightfully as an interlude, and “Dialogue” is also featured. Two Movements from “Symphony in F Major” (Beethoven), “Wayside Sketches” (Scotch Minehin), “The Midnight Dream” (Schlepegrell), “Rustic Revels” (Percy Fletcher), two latest fox trots, “Didn’t I?” and “Oriental Dream Eyes,” are but a few of the musical gems included in the incidental music.

“The Smart Set,” the chief pictorial attraction, shows William Haines as Tommy Van Buren, scion of a wealthy family, who toils not. but who rides a pony with a mallet in his hand in a particularly thrilling fashion, and who, at the same time, is considered most eligible by many lovely young ladies. The attentions they pay Tommy lead to many highly entertaining incidents, while Haines himself adds great amusement to this attempted conquest by his sophisticated reception of the charmers. However, he finally falls in love with a proud and beautiful girl who holds herself aloof from him, until he disgraces himself when, with typical feminine variability, she takes pity on him. After sundry complications, and at the end of an exciting polo championship, she decides to reform Tommy for good.