MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE PATSY” One of the best of the enjoyable comedy programmes for which the Majestic Theatre is famous is this week’s entertainment. It combines a first-class feature picture, a happy two-reel comedy and a full programme of music. The same effervescing'spirit of youth for which Marion Davies is famed among her friends off the screen makes her newest film vehicle, ‘‘The Patsy,” one long uproarious laugh from the instant when she first sticks her head in the door at the home of the Harrington family until the final second when she “grags” her loving “fadeout” clinch with her handsome leading man, Orville Caldwell. “The Patsy” has broken all comedy records wherever shown, and there seems to be no good reason why it shouldn’t do as well at the Majestic Theatre, where it is now showing; for, in the role of the hoydenish younger sister, Miss Davies is, to put it in the parlance of an emphatic generation, “a wow.” Miss Davies is said to have selected this theme herself, but the executives of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organisation surely could not have taken long to realise how amusing Miss Davies could be as the heroine who trains herself from a book to improve her personality—and incidentally cop her sister’s beaux for herself. The supporting programme includes the comedy, “Soup for Nuts,” with Stan Laurel and Oliver I-lardy as two comic, waiters, and a film showing the sword fishing in the Bay of Islands. Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra again presents an excellently varied musical programme, playing “Tancredi,” by Rossini, for the overture. This evening will be the first appearance in New Zealand of Fred Mayfield’s Cowboy Band, which arrived by the Aorangi yesterday. Fred Mayfield’s Cowboy Band is not just a band, but a real entertainment in itself. Every musician is an actor, and every actor a musician. Against dazzzling backgrounds this combination serves up music in good form for those prefer it, as well as marvellous interpretations of the art of jazz and its allies. It is not just a jazz band but a real entertainment. The cowboys are musical masters on at least 37 instruments. “Wonderful,” “Sensational” and “Marvellous” are some of the praises accorded them in Canada and America.

Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, William Collier, junr., Andre Beranger and Margaret Livingston are among' the players who have just finished the feo.ture comedy “No Questions Asked,” under the direction of Rqy Del Ruth. A coming Master picture.