MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“CAREERS” TOMORROW “Words and Music.” the entertaining talking and singing production which has been delighting audiences at the Majestic Theatre during the past week, will be screened there for the last time this evening, together with its supporting programme of short talkie l’eaturettes. From tomorrow the Majestic will present the latest all-talking success by the beautiful actress, Billie Dove. This is “Careers,” a tale of love in the diplomatic service in Cochin-China. Tho most original and costly indoor set ever built in the First National studios at Burbank, California, was constructed for “Careers.” This set represented the palace of the Governor of Indo-Cliina, where much of the action of “Careers” takes place. It covered one and one-half acres of studio space and involved the employment of a score of artists and artisans for one month. The entire effect is authentically exotic even to the detail of llowers, plants and trees. The palace proper consisted of a building 7.*> feet in height and containing several large elaborately decorated rooms. Gilded columns support the ceiling, tapestries and silken draperies adorn the walls. Doors, massive and faithful in design, are hand-carved and polychromed. Back of the palace were built the formal gardens—pergolas covered with vines and flowers, a limpid lily pond mirroring the stately columns of the palace, a winding gravel road lined with trees, palms and indigenous- shrubbery. Jack Oke.v, art director for First National Pictures, is credited with this unusual setting which furnishes tlu* lovely Billie Dove a worthy background for the dramatic intrigue and narrative of “Careers.” John Francis Dillon directed “Careers” with a notable supporting cast including Antonio Moreno. Noah Beery, Thelma Todd, Carmel Myers. Robert Frazer. Holmes Herbert. Robert Sellable, Sojin and others. At the head of the supporting programme will be an interesting film with sights and sounds of the great Scouts’ Jambouree at Birkenhead. England.