MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“SINS OF THE FATHERS” With the coming of each new Emil Jannings picture, local theatregoers have fallen into the habit of becoming spellbound while the artist gives one of his characterisations. The sensation is not amiss with his latest Paramount starring film entitled “Sins of the Fathers,” at the Majestic Theatre. Jannings, in the role of a GermanAmerican, Wilhelm Spengler, starts as a waiter, becomes a saloon keeper, then a rich bootlegger, followed by a prison term in which he acts as a waiter, and upon release falls back to the vocation of a waiter again, this time in a picnic garden. Throughout he plays the kind of a man that Jannings audiences know*. He plays the part of a man that every theatregoer can understand and sympathise with. The famous actor has a notable supporting cast headed by Ruth Chatterton, the “well-known stage actress. Others in the cast are Zasu Pitts, who has become one of the screen's greatest tragediennes, Barry Norton. Jean Arthur, Jack Luden and Matthew Betz. Ludvig Berger directed the sensational film. Among the excellent short . talkie features which are also presented is an all-talking comedy by George Jessel, film and stage comedian, a comedy interlude by Clapham and Dwyer, vaudeville players, and .a Fox News with the latest world events. The Majestic Octet, under the baton of Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh, plays a number of enjoyable musical selections.

Claude King, who plays the role of a “General of India,” in the Fox all-talk-ing picture, “The Black Watch,” was able to capture the coveted honours of giving, in the critics' opinion, the best performance of the season. Victor McLaglen is one of the principal players in “The Black Watch.”