MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “CAREERS” • Should a wife risk her honour to further her husband’s ambitions? This is the question around which is built the story of “Careers” the new Billie Dove all-talking picture which is now at the Majestic Theatre. The locale of the story is laid in Indo-China. The mood of the story is tropical—tropical passions, tropical temperaments, tropical manners of living. John Francis Dillon directed “Careers” and the supporting cast is of superlative merit including Antonio Moreno, Noah Beery, Carmel Myers, Thelma Todd, Sojin, Holmes Herbert, Craufurd Kent, and Count Andre de Segurola, the latter the famous opera singer who sings a number in French. The supporting programme includes an interesting film with sights and sounds of the great Scouts’ Jamboree at Birkenhead, England. The other items are “Screen Snapshots,” introducing some Hollywood personalities, selections by Gene Morgan’s orchestra, and a Fox Movietone News. Both the brogue and the blarney of Erin are included in Colleen Moore’s all-talking First Nationai-Vitaphone picture, “Smiling Irish Eyes,” which has been secured by the Majestic Theatre for on engagement beginning on Friday. The list of extra players appearing in large scenes of this production was made up almost entirely of Murphys, Dugans, Kellys. Callahans, O’Briens. O’Connors, and names equally as i famous on the Emerald Isle. Not only do they enrich the conversational background with soft syllables and colloquial expressions so common in the speech of the Irish, but their appearance is suitable for a picture with the Old Sod as its principal locale.