MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“CIRCUS ROOKIES” The fun commences at the Majestic to-day with “Circus Rookies,” starring those two favourite comedians, Karl Dane and George K. Arthur. The new picture is a hilarious comedy of life with a circus, Dane playing an animal trainer, and Arthur a press agent. Louise Lorraine is the heroine, a trapeze performer, and Sydnew Jarvis, Fred Humes and others of note are in the cast.

A complete circus was constructed and peopled with professional circus performers recruited from shows in winter quarters, for the circus scenes, and a full performance was given with 10,000 people in the audience for some of the scenes. The circus train, chartered and run on a leased track, furnished another elaborate detail of the big production. Thrills in the circuis, an escape from a giant gorilla and a desperate chase across the roofs of a careening circus train are among the thrills of the new production. Also screening is another hilarious comedy, “Soft Living,” with Madge Bellamy. The plot of the story is that of a wise little country girl who marries a rich country boy for his money. But the young millionaire proves that he is not to be fooled. He decides he will take his young bride to his hunting lodge instead of the bright lights of Broadway. And then Madge is instructed in the ways and means of keeping up a house. When it comes to making a fire and cooking Madge is a decided failure. She can’t even open a can. but everything comes out in the end. That Is when another woman enters the story, *he girl confesses her love for her husband and everything is patched up.

An excellent topical budget is included on the programme, as well as a fine musical programme arranged bv Mr. Whitejord Waugh. The orchestral interlude is Laval’s magnificent overture to “Joan of Arc.”