MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“GLORIFYING THE AMERICAN GIRL” Ziegfeld’s “Glorifying the American Girl,” is being shown at the Majestic Theatre in all the gorgeous splendour that one would expect from any production, stage or screen, bearing the magic name of Florenz Ziegfeld. With many of its spectacle scenes reproduced in full colours by the improved Technicolour Process, with scores of stunningly beautiful girls m the dancing ensembles, with lavish settings, with comedy, drama and a heart-gripping story, this moving panorama of womanly pulchritude, moves across the silver screen in a continual parade of highly absorbing amusement. Mary Eaton, dancing star of Ziegfeld shows on Broadway, and lately the leading woman in “The Cocoanuts,” with the Four Marx Brothers on the screen, is the ambitious young dancer who finally makes good and be r comes a glorified beauty with Ziegfeld following a series of glamorous experiences. She is adequately supported by Dan Healy, Edward Crandall, Olive Shea, Kaye Renard and Sarah Edwards —all of them well-known Broadway performers. In a special revue scene —a show within the big show —audiences are treated to tho inimitable performances of Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan and Rudy Vallee. It is all too gorgeous to attempt a description in this limited space. But it is a safe bet that anyone who sees Paramount’s “Glorifying the American Girl,” will be a Zeigfeld fan from then on. It *s perfectly marvellous entertainment.

The remainder of the Majestic’s programme includes musical selections by Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s Orchestra, a talking comedy, and a New Zealand gazette.