MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“HARD TO GET”

The ‘voice or Filth. Avenue, j\ew York City, is now taken to the far corners of the world, via Vitaphone. The aristocrat of thoroughfares figures prominently in Dorothy Mackaill's latest starring vehicle “Hard to Get.” coming to the Majestic Theatre today. Some of .the Fifth Avenue scenes were filmed on the actual locale. Others were made at the huge First National-Vitaphone Studios In California. The studio scenes were “closeups” in comparison to the scenes filmed on real Fifth Avenue, so the reproductions of two blocks of street facades, sidewalks and so on were only one or two storeys high. On the real Fifth Avenue and its stuuio aupncate sound recording was used, so that the traffic roar and other sounds that constitute what O. Henry called “the voice of New York” will form a background for the dialogue of “Hard to Get.” Miss Mackaill has just been divorced, cinematically speaking, from Jack Mulhall. “Hard to Get,” her latest picture, is an independent starring vehicle. It is a First NationalVitaphone feature. Mulhall, who has been seen with her in so many films, is also starring separately. Charles Delaney plays opposite Miss Mackaill in “Hard to Get,” a rollicking comedy-drama dealing with a shapely modiste's still-hunt for millionaires on Fifth Avenue, New York Louise Fazenda, Edmund Burns, Jack Oakie, Clarissa Selwynne and other noted players form the supporting cast. A long and most enjoyable supporting programme will also be presented this evenine.

Iven Maynard, whose hobby is collecting’ songs of the old West, sings live songs in Spanish in “Senor Americano,” his latest talking picture. Maynard, who plays the part of a hardriding, hard-fighting American officer, finds it necessary to learn the Spanish love songs to serenade a beautiful Spanish-Californian girl, portrayed by Kathryn Crawford, who also sings in the picture.