MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“TAKE ME HOME” Another brightly-varied programme of music and pictures will be offered at the popular Majestic Theatre this evening. Opening with an “Inkwell” cartoon, and the latest Majestic Magazine, the smaller supporting pictures will also include a merry Bell Dodley comedy, “A She-Going Sailor.” The musical side will be headed by a Yorke Gray stage presentation. “Sonny Boy,” in which Mr. Hartley Warburton and Master Desmond Casey will be the soloists. In addition to the incidental music, Mr. Whiteford AVaugh’s Majestic Orchestra will play “Memories—Melodies of Yesterday” for the overture. Then there is the main picture, “Take Me Home.” Bvery year, hundreds of American youth flock to Broadway and try to become famous. Some achieve their ambition, but more of them do not. Visions of their names in electric lights flashing along the world famous Rialto are just as effective a magnet to them as it is to those of the opposite sex who emigrate to Hollywood in quest of screen fame. In “Take Me Home,” the latest Bebe Daniels starring film, which will be shown for the first time at the Majestic Theatre this evening, how one young man is roughly treated by Broadway and is saved from complete defeat by a little chorus girl, is the highlight of the picture. Bebe Daniels is the chorus girl. Most of the action of the story “Take Me Home” is laid back-stage in a, theatre, where rehearsals are under way for a musical show. It is a picture vastly different from the recent Bebe Daniels films, for, while retaining the swiftness and lightness of tempo that has become identified with her, there is a very strong dramatic and romantic theme. . N eil Hamilton, who played opposite the star in “Hot Hews,’’ also has the leading man’s role in this picture. Neil Hamilton portrays the stagestruck youth, and he puts a little more into the role than was actually expected of him. It was not so many years ago that Hamilton himself was struggling along the great White Way for recognition. He knew firsthand the discouragement and disillusionment that besets those who tackle Broadway, and he was only reliving an experience in his life to a certain extent.

Marshall Neilan directed the film from an original story. Included in the supporting cast are such wellknown featured players as Lilyan Tashman, Joe E. Brown and Boris Hill.

Bessie Love, whose work in the alltalking "Broadway Melody” aroused the enthusiasm of studio officials, has signed a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.