MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

TWO BIG TALKIES A picture of dramatic intensity and compelling sincerity is shown at the Majestic Theatre this week. “The Careless Age” is a First National talkie which was adapted from the wellknown stage play “Division,” by John van Druten. The theme of “The Careless Age” is the allure that a sophisticated woman sometimes has for a younger man. In this case the young man is almost a boy—and the woman is an actress. They meet at Lake Como, where the actress is glad to find diversion in the arms of the youth. Then she returns to the glamour of her London life and is ready to forget him, but the boy has other ideas. And so the complications start. After completing the solution of two murders as Philo Vance in Paramount’s “The Canary Murder Case” and “The Greene' Murder Case,” William Powell returned to the all-talking screen at the Majestic Theatre in a role similar to those which brought him. earlier fame in the silent films.

Ho is performing the central character part of Robert Courtland in “Pointed Heels,” the second feature on the programme. In this role he portrays a man of the world, a sort of urbane demi-villain who tries to break up the happy marriage of a show* girl friend and her youthful composer-hus-band. It is a perfect Powell role, and the suave William plays it to perfection. Fay Wray is the show girl. She is more bewitching than ever. Helen Kane of radio and phonograph record fame the same who played coquettish roles in “Nothing but the Truth” and “Sweetie” is cofeatured with Pow T ell. She plays the role of Dot Nixon, crooning singer of the song and dance team of Dot and Dash Nixon, of which Richard “Skeets” Gallagher is the Dash.