MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 619, 22 March 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE CONSTANT NYMPH” The revival of British picture production has given us few more hopeful examples than “The Constant Nymph,” to be presented at the Majestic Theatre this evening. It has been described as a good example of British film art, and its London pre-release proved that there is a large public for such productions. While such filmable stories as this novel by Margaret Kennedy are rare.

the excellence of the picture gives abundant proof that, given the right material, home producers have nothing to fear from foreign rivals. The story commences among the mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, where Sanger, an erratic musical Genius, dies sud-

denly, leaving his large family of brilliant but uneducated children to the mercy of the world. Robert Churchill, brother of Sanger’s second wife, arrives in Austria with his pretty niece, Florence, to make provision for two of the children Tessa and Paulina. Lewis Dodd, a brilliant musician and an old friend of the Sanger family (and especially of Tessa), impulsively proposes marriage to Florence, who eagerly accepts him. They return to London, where Lewis, now married to Florence, soon chafes at the respectability of their Chiswick home and Florence’s “musical” friends. Tessa and Paulina, unable to endure the discipline of school life, seek refuge with Lewis, and the growing breach between Lewis and Florence, who is vaguely jealous of Tessa, widens. Mabel Poulton is seen as Tessa and Ivor Novello plays the role of Lewis. A feature of this evening’s programme will be a Xorke Gray stage presentation entitled “The Fan Fantasy.” This vision of colour introduces Miss Mary Cofield and Mr. Birrell O’Malley singing Lrigo’s “Serenade, Miss Folole Lilliokalani and Mr. Clyde Howley dancing the Argentine tango, together with ballets aiid models of the living fan arranged by Miss Lillian O’Leary.