MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 824, 19 November 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“WORDS AND MUSIC” Continued success attends the showing' of the all"-talking; and singing production, “Words and Music,” at the Majestic Theatre. There are more than one hundred beautiful girls in the chorus and ballet, all of them charming singers and dancers. Lois Moran proves especially appealing in a singing and dancing role, her first in audible pictures. She dances with the grace of a Pavlova and reveals a delightful soprano voice. David Percy, who sang “That’s You, Baby,” and “Pearl of Old Japan,” in “Fox Follies,” is an attraction by reason of his great baritone voice. Be also scored with his singing of the theme song in “The Black Watch.” Tom Patricola is acknowledged as America’s premier eccentric dancer. For years he has been a headliner in big time vaudeville, and for the last four years has been featured in the Xew York show, George White’s “Sen ndals.” “Words and Music” is a collegiate musical comedy along the lines of “Good News,” one of the most sensational stage succeses in recent years. It is entirely original, of course, following “Good News” in no A great combination of writers provided the songs for “Words and Music.” They are William Kernel!, whose “Sally of My Dreams” was a popular favourite: David Stamper and Harlan Thompson, both veteran musical comedy and revue authors. Stamper was for seventeen years the principal composer for a Broadway producer. Con Conrad. Sidney D. Mitchell and Archie Gottler also contributed to “Words, and Music.” Their songs in “Fox Follies of 1929” are well known. With an exceptional selection of short talkie featurettes, the Majestic programme is a real entertainment.