MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE PATSY” ON FRIDAY The popular laughter programme at the Majestic Theatre will have its final screening to-morrow evening, and all patrons are advised to make the most of their opportunities and see “Why Sailors Go Wrong,” the most merry of all comedies, with Sammy Cohen aad Ted McNamara in the leading roles. “Why Sailors Go Wrong” is a tale of two cab-drivers who, by a series of accidents, find themselves on a private yacht as seamen. They are subsequently shipwrecked, and their adventures among wild animals and still wilder human beings make an uproarious comedy. A screamingly funny Fox comedy, “Daisies "Wont Yell,” an interesting Majestic News, and a very beautiful and enchanting scenic of Tutuila, fairest island in the South Seas, are also on the pictorial programme. A selection from “Maritana” (Wallace) is played by the Majestic Orchestra under the conductorship of Mr. Whiteford Waugh as the overture. On Friday the Majestic will show Marion Davies’s latest picture, “The Patsy.” In this picture Miss Davies, despite her troubles, and they are many, persists in seeing humour in everything. No matter whether she is treading on the feet of the man she loves while dancing with him, knocking him over with an oar while helping him into a rowboat, or quoting halfbaked epigrams stolen from a book on “personality,” she laughs—and everyone who sees the picture laughs with her.

The Los Angeles real estate salesman and his methods of doing business contributed a great deal of fun to one sequence of the story which deals with the adventures of the hero and heroine in opening up a new subdivision in a typical west coast manner. Miss Davies's “take-offs” on famous movie stars also furnish a great deal of fun as, of course, they were drawn from life, as all the persons she caricatured have been her friends for. years.