MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 17

MAJESTIC

NEW PICTURES ON FRIDAY Only two more days remain of the current programme at the Majestic Theatre. In the comedy, “Men Are Like That,” Hal Skelly has the leading role, a clerk in a railway office, at heart kindly and sincere, but outwardly, as a result of reading books on developing his personality, bragging and boisterous. Amy Fisher, played by Loris Hill, marries him and their subsequent adventures lead to a number of ridiculous complications.

In the second production, “Lark Streets,” Jack Mulhall plays a. dual role of two brothers, one a policeman and the other a thief. The story depends on the resemblance of the two brothers and their attempts to protect each other, although still remaining within the code of their own worlds

Action and love are the chief ingredients in Charles (Buddy) Rogers’s latest all-talking, starring Paramount picture, “Half Way to Heaven.” coming to the Majestic on Friday. Jean Arthur, lovely heroine of “The Greene Murder Case” and “The Mysterious. Dr. Fu Manchu,” has the sweetheart role. The story was adapted from the popular novel, “Here Comes the Bandwagon,” a best seller bv Henry L. Gates.

George Abbott, the Broadway playwright and director who guided Moran and Mack through their first talking picture, % “Why Bring That Up?” directed this new’ Rogers picture. Abbott also did the adaptation of the Gates’s novel for the screen. Most of the action of the picture was filmed outdoors, many of the scenes showing a carnival lot and life aboard a carnival troupe train.