MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 431, 13 August 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“CIRCUS ROOKIES’

First in importance on the pictorial programme at the Majestic Theatre, is

“Circus Rookies,” a hilarious comedy with those inimitable laugh-makers, Karl Bane and George K. Arthur in the leading roles The new xoroduction plunges the heroes into a series of circus adventures. Bane, a roustabout, gets a job as animal trainer and Arthur gets the post of Press agent, and then the fun begins. There is a huge gorilla in the picture too —he chases the heroes over a careening circus train, and Arthur gets tangled up with a trapeze, and thrills and laughs mix in profusion. A complete circus was built and the whole performance was staged for the picture, so one gets a circus along with the rest of the fun. Altogether it is the most ambitious and one of the funniest Bane-Arthur comedies. The love interest is between Arthur and Louise Lorraine, and in spite of all the funmaking Arthur has opportunity for some really romantic lovemaking, and some of his scenes with Miss Lorraine are almost heart-grip-ping. The romance runs through a rapid fire background of thrills and laughs. The second feature is “Soft Living,” a riotous comedy with Madge Bellamy in the starring role. The story is a new treatment of the question of marriage for love or for money, and tells of a girl who finds that marrying a rich man does not always make “Soft Living.”

Then there is also a very interesting Majestic News, the Majestic screen newspaper, containing, in pictorial form, all the latest news from all quarters of the globe. Of special interest to Aucklanders is the film showing the opening of the new Auckland Winter Garden by Sir George Eliott, and the Mayor, Mr. George Baildon, and mermaids from the Auckland Training College giving an exhibition of life-saving at the Tepid Baths. An outstanding news item in the Majestic News is a short film of the famous English Berby meeting. Mr. "Whiteford Waugh and his Majestic Orchestra again provide a musical feast of incomparable standard. In addition to the bright introductory march this very talented and popular combination play “Joan of Arc” overture (Laval).