MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“SEVEN DAYS’ LEAVE” “Seven Days’ Leave,” starring* Gary Cooper, is continuing its successful return season at the Majestic Theatre. Here is a picture whose story content is entirely new to picturegoers. It is the story of a childless London widow’s adoption of an orphaned Canadian soldier boy during the dark days of the great world conflict. There is no “boy and girl love” in the play. Yet here is a picture that will doubtless rank with the most famous of the new show world for its human, poignant drama. Cooper appears throughout the play —which is based on Sir James M. Barrie’s stage success, “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals”—in the kilts and bonnet of a Higlander of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment. He creates a new hero role for talking screen enthusiasts and particularly for his admirers. It is a sympathetic role, endowed with all the rich whimsy of Barrie’s literary original. Beryl Mercer, that delightfully quaint little British lady who made her screen debut in “Three Live Ghosts” as Mrs. Gubbins, portrays the leading supporting part, that of Mrs. Dowey, the charwoman, who adopts Cooper so that she can affect the bravado of her neighbour charwomen, who have given sons to their country’s cause. Miss Mercer established the role in the original stage production in London in 1920. A powerful romantic film, entitled “Dangerous Paradise.” from Joseph Conrad’s novel, “Victory,” and starring Richard Arlen and Nancy Carroll, is also being presented on the same programme. The Majestic’s current programme also includes a number of enjoyable talking and singing items.