MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 599, 27 February 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “TAKE ME HOME” The enjoyable programme at the Majestic Theatre is headed by “Take Me Home,” a clever comedy-drama starring - Bcbo Daniels. Bebe portrays the role of Peggy Dane, a chorine, in her new picture. Backstage life in a big theatre is authentically transplanted to the screen. Neil Hamilton has the leading man’s role. He portrays a youth who goes to Broadway to break into the show business and is helped in overcoming the many obstacles by Bebe. Lilyan Tashman, Doris Hill and Joe Brown have the chief supporting roles. The programme also includes a comedy, gazette and a stage presentation, “Sonny Boy,” in which Mr. Hartley Warburton and Master Desmond Casey are the soloists. No picture of recent years has evoked more spontaneous praise from the critics than has “Drums of Dove,” the epical romance of two brothers in love which D. W. Griffith has fashioned for United Artists and which comes to the Majestic Theatre next Friday, with Mary Philbin, Dionel Barrymore. Don Alvarado, Tully Marshall and William Austin in the leading roles. The picture is said to be so far advanced in the realms of sheer beauty and dramatic strength that no comparison can be made with any modern screen production. In this new masterpiece of his, Griffith is said to have achieved the very ultimate in perfection. The treatment accorded the old legend of Francesca da Rimini, which has been an inspiration to artists since Dante, and even down to D’Annunzio, is unusual. The scene of the story is moved from Continental Europe to South America at the time of its greatest flowering, when the splendours of the Court of Portugal were moved to the vast new empire by King Don John. Many who have seen the production have been unable to express its great dramatic power and poetic treatment in terms of mere words. For the first time, life is vividly portrayed on the screen in all its ramifications. All the joys and the sorrows, the loves and sly amours of mankind are paraded through the medium of a new photography and masterfully woven into a sublime story. The musical side of the programme is in the capable hands of Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra.