MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 536, 13 December 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

"ANNIE LAURIE" TO-MORROW • This evening will see the final presentation at the Majestic Theatre of the beautiful .Pacific Island picture, “The Adorable Outcast.” An entirely new programme will be presented at the Majestic to-morrow, with new musical selections and short supporting films, and headed by the fine photoplay ol" clan warfare irt the Scottish Highlands, ‘‘Annie Laurie,” starring Lilian Gish. The new picture, an historical drama based on the Glencoe Massacre, and the stirring romance of Annie Laurie, the Scots heroine whose marriage into an enemy elan brought the peace that unified Scotland, was staged on an elaborate scale. Huge replicas of famous Scots -castles, including the ancient Maxwelton; armies of huge Scots in kilts and tartans in rugged Highland scenes and in sensational battles; and underneath it all the story of a - romance sweet as the song that it inspired; these are elements in the big production. Miss Gish plays a role different from any in her career as the daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, chief of the Campbells, whose love for lan of the Clan MacDonald precipitated the mighty struggle. Norman Kerry is seen as the hero. The entire resources of the great Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios were thrown into the huge production. An entire woollen mill was leased to weave the special plaids for the garments, all authentic, of some twenty-six tribes figuring in the great gathering of the clans at Maxwelton and other dramatic crowd scenes in the big picture. The cast includes Hobart Bosworth in the role of the historic "Wolf of Glencoe,” David Torrence, Russell Simpson, Creighton Hale, Patricia Avery, Joseph Striker, Brandon Hurst ancf others of note. Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra, will present a specially selected programme of Scots mu§ic tc accompany the picture.