MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

LAST DAYS OF “DRAG” Richard Barthelmess, in the picture now in its last days at the Majestic Theatre, “Drag 1 of the Family,” is seen in the role of David Carroll, young newspaperman with musical and dramatic talents. The ambitious young man composes an operetta entitled ‘ The Dove Prince,” the music of which is reproduced via Vitaphone. The song number featured is ‘‘My Song of the INTile,” and from its success in other towns it promises to head the list of successful theme songs. “Drag of the Family” is the story of a young editor of a small country paper who marries into a “parasitical” family, finally pulls himself away from them, goes to New York and sells his operetta and finds that happiness which is so lacking among his “in-laws.” The cast is headed by Dila Dee and Alice Day. This is the second Barthelmess talking picture, the first being “Weary River,” and it has been made completely in talking. The accompanying programme of talkies and music will also be presented for only two more days. Hollywood has made Hal Skelly “one of the finest.” In “Woman Trap,” second motion picture of his brief film career, he plays a member of a metropolitan police department, out to break up a gang that has his younger brother in its power. Skelly’s first picture for Paramount was “The Dance of Dife,” the screen adaptation of the stage success, “Burlesque,” in which he was one of the original cast. “Woman Trap” is the Paramount feature at the Majestic Theatre next Friday. Evelyn Brent and Chester Morris are also featured in the cast.