MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 871, 15 January 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“BIG TIME” TOMORROW The current programme at the Majestic Theatre will have its final screening this evening. This includes “Darkened Rooms,” the Sir Phillip Gibbs’s story of spiritualism, starring Evelyn Brent and Neil Hamilton, and brilliant supporting items. Suppose your husband should suddenly decide to leave you, right after your baby was born —what would you do? This question was asked of Mae Clarke, who enacts a role in “Big Time,” Fox Movietone all-talking drama, in which such a situation arises.

In “Big Time,” opening tomorrow at the Majestic, Lee Tracy, of “Broadway” fame, enacts the role of the conceited dancer who, after marrying Lily Clark, and after she becomes the mother of a boy, leaves her, to dance with another girl. He and the girl are booked on the “Big Time” circuit. They “flop” and Eddie finds himself out of a job. Meanwhile, Lily Clark and her boy, after changing their riame, disappear, and seven years intervene before Eddie finds them in a motion picture studio in Hollywood, where he has joined the line of extras in search of employment.

The big moment of the play comes when Eddie discovers a seven-year-old boy doing his old dance, and recognises him as his son. A dramatic meeting with his wife follows this, and the hungry, abject, and muchhumbled Eddie is forgiven. The comedy is furnished by Stepin Fetchit, the incomparable coloured comedian, and Daphne Pollard, one of the outstanding comediennes of the scren. Josephine Dunn plays the “other woman.” Kenneth Hawks directed the picturlsation of the production. An excellent supporting- programme is being shown.