MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 809, 1 November 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

'“PLEASURE CRAZED” •‘Pleasure Crazed,” an. all-talkie but a different type of story with ’an unforgettable climax, will be presented at the Majestic Theatre for the first time this evening. The story opens in a lovely California estate, where Colonel Farquar (Henry Kolker), Nora Wesby (Marguerite Churchill) and Gilbert Ferguson (Campbell Gullan) await the new tenants, a wealthy couple to whom they have sublet. The three form a unique group of crooks. The trio is completing its plans when Captain Anthony Dean (Kenneth Mackenna) and his wife, Alma (Dorothy Burgess), arrive to take over possession. There is an obvious unpleasant feeling between them. Farquar introduces Nora as his secretary who is to stay on to take care of important messages. He turns the keys, including what he claims to be the only key to a strong-box, over to Alma and leaves with Gilbert. Alma has been brought to California to break up her love affair with a certain Nigel Blain. Blain, however, soon turns up at a neighbouring country club as a member of an Eastern polo team. In a few days Farquar and Gilbert, who have engineered the whole plan of “leasing” in order to get into the strong-box with their duplicate keys and steal Alma’s valuable jewel col} lection, become impatient. Nora receives their phone calls and tells them that the time is not ripe. They grow suspicious and decide to take matters into their own hands. Meanwhile Dean shows kindly attentions to Nora, who rebels at her spy role, and when Alma phones saying she is dining with “friends” and Dean asks her to have dinner with him slie consents. Dean, whose devotion to Alma has been completely killed by her passion for Blain, decides to go away for a few days. Learning of a polo game in progress, he stops «to watch. Blain is in- ; jured in a fall. Alma rushes over to him and orders Blain to be taken to her home. Dean also returns home and, unobserved, sees Nora tampering with the strong-box. That is the beginning of his suspicions and the beginning of the complications of the plot. In addition the following short talking and singing features will be presented on the new programme:—Songs by Charles Hackett. who is well-known for his work on Columbia records, part songs bv “The Yacht Club Boys,” and a Fox Movietone News, with the latest world events.