MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 919, 12 March 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“WOMAN TRAP” A drama of the New York underworld, the central figures of which are two brothers, one a police officer and the other a liquor smuggler and gangster wanted by the law, is unfolded in “Woman Trap,” the chief feature on the current programme at the Majestic Theatre. Their respective positions bring the pair into conflict, the manner in which the weaker eventually pays for his misdeeds providing the film with an absorbing theme. Hal Skelly, the principal of “The Dance of Life,” and Evelyn Brent, one of the most popular talking screen actresses, are entrusted with the leading parts. Others in subordinate roles are Chester Morris, William B. Davidson. Effie Ellsler Guy Oliver and Leslie Fenton. A particularly fine supporting programme of shorter talkies is also being presented. The items include a sound cartoon, “On High C.'s,” two all-talk-ing comedies, “Red Headed Hussies,” and “Station 8.U.N.K.,” a U.K.A. gem. “Peculiar Households,” and finally, extracts from the opera, “The Pearl Fishers” (Bizet). Billie Dove, often called the most beautiful woman on the screen, was never more beautiful than in “Her Private Life,” the First National - Vitaphone picture coming to the Majestic on Friday. Miss Dove plays a titled Englishwoman in this story of Great Britain and New York, and wears some of the most exquisite gowns she has ever donned for the silver sheet. Alexander Korda, the Hungarian director, was at the megaphone on this dramatic story., and Walter Pidgeon plays opposite the star. The splendid jast includes Montagu Love, Holmes Herbert. Thelma Todd. Roland Young and Zasu Pitts.