MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 507, 9 November 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

LAUGHTER WEEK COMMENCES It is said that “a laugh a day keeps the blues away.” so there should be no blues near the Majestic Theatre this week. It is anticipated that the Majestic Theatre will echo and re-echo with laughter from happy patrons when they view the huge “laughter programme” commencing to-day. Those who saw George K. Arthur and Karl Dane in “Rookies” will never forget their portrayals and should look forward to a large dose of fun with the screening of “Detectives.” The two heroes are working in an hotel, both rivals for the hand of the pretty house stenographer, played by Marceline Day, when the mysterious Orloff. master crook, starts his depredations. They start in chase —a race with the girl as a prize and stolen jewels as the object, and from then on their hilarious adventures and comical mishaps keep the fun going. The settings are elaborately bizarre: a haunted grotto underground, with fantastic mummies, sinister shadows, and hands that reach out of nowhere; curtains that enfold them and make them vanish, and other thrills. The second “laughter feast” on the programme is the screamingly funny comedy, “Tell it to the Judge.” Wholesome fun and clean, clever humour is shown in this comedy, as indeed it is in all the comedies featuring Max Davidson, the new comedian. “Beautyland,” a number of enchanting scenes photographed in the new “Bloom” colours, and a Majestic Magazine, which contains among its many scenes those of the giant Zeppelin which recently crossed from Germany to America, and Porto Rico, which was recently laid bare by the disastrous hurricances which swept the countrj’, are also on the programme. The centenary of the birth of Franz Schubert, the famous composer, falls this week, and as a tribute Mr! Whiteford Waugh has chosen one of the composer’s popular arrangements as most befitting the occasion. “Lilac Time” is the composition to be played, and musical gems to be included in the interlude are “Just a Kittle Ring,” “The Flower Duet,” “March Miiitaire,” “The Golden Song” (duet), and “Yours is My Heart.”