MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 465, 21 September 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“TELLING THE WORLD” Another popular programme will be presented at the Majestic Theatre, commencing to-day. Thrills, laughs, news, beautiful New Zealand scenery, music and vaudeville, are all contained in this wonderful entertainments “Telling the World” is the cl\ie£ pictoi'ial attraction ©n the programme. The leading player in “Telling the World” is William Haines. The action furnishes a wide variety of new and interesting effects. The story Opens in a newspaper office, which will probably be classed as absolutely correct by every dramatic critic in the country.

The cast is highly capable and contains names known to every motion picture follower. It includes Anita Page, Polly Moran, Bert Roach, Eileen Percy, Frank Currier, William V. Mong and Mathew Betz. With such actors, any motion picture could hardly help but turn out one of the real successes of the year. Next in importance is an enchanting New Zealand scenic, “The Southern Lake.”

As is usual the popular Majestic News is full of interesting scenes, 4md among the most notable are those showing the annual cricket match betweexT English Admirals and Nautical College, Loi'd Jellicoe being captain of the Admirals* team, a very spectacular short film of a British Guards’ parade, Japanese war canoes in a striking regatta, and surf riding at Waikiki Beach. An hilarious comedy, “The Fighting Pest,” concludes the programme.

“Wendy” and “Alphonse,” two clever musical people, whose humorous songs and sketches ax'© widely known, will be appearing on the stage. That popular composition, Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No. 7, will be specially featured this week by the Majestic Orchestra as the interlude. Under the conductorship of Mr. Whiteford Waugh, the orchesti-a will also play a delightful programme of incidental suite from “The Samoan Isles (Geehe), Mendelssohn’s “Scherzcn ‘■‘Marche Slav” (Tschaikowsky), Danse Russe Trepak” (Tschaikowsky), Indian Summer Suite” (Lake) and “Viennese Melody” (Kreisier)! being but a few of the musical gems.