MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 982, 27 May 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“HALF WAY TO HEAVEN” I “Thevworld’s boy friend” has a new : girl friend. i Charles (Buddy) Rogers, who has won universal renown as the screen sweetheart of Nancy Carroll, Mary Brian, Clara Bow and many another world-famous moving picture beauty, makes love to Jean Arthur in his new Paramount all-talking, starring picture “Half Way to Heaven.’ which is delighting the audiences at the Majestic Theatre. “Half Way to Heaven” brings Rogers and Miss Arthur together for the first time, although both have been undei contract to Para mount for somt time. Miss Arthu j played with Clara Bow in “The Satur day Night Kid” re cently, and woi praise for her char acterisations in “Th Canary M u r d e Case,” “The Green Murder Case” ant. ‘•The Mysterious 33r Fu Manchu.” She carried the feminine leads in the two j latter pictures. , “Half Way to Heaven was filmed , in the modern manner by George Abbott, maker of the Moran and Mack ; picture, "Why Bring That Up? It , is one of the first all-talking' pictures | to be made almost entirely outdoors, j and. introduces some unique nature j scenes and sounds to the talking j screen. The cast is composed of well-known veterans. In addition to j Rogers, Miss Arthur and Paul Lukas, the names include Helen Ware, wellknown stage star; Oscar Apfcl. foimer I movie director, and Ldna M est, playing in her first all-talking picture after years of stage experience. ~ The fine supporting programme being presented includes a new Mickey the Mouse cartoon, a newspaper news, a talkie comedy sketch by Louise I agenda, a musical fantasy, starring Lupe : Velez, and entitled “Glorious vamps, j a ringing Talkartoon, and finally selec- j lions by Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s orchestra. . , , . On Friday next the Majestic v. ill present one' of the most unusual film productions yet seen in New Zealand. This is “The Great Gabbio,” m which the chief role is played by a ventriloquist’s dummy. “The Great Gabbio, which stars Eric von Stroheim,” the famous Viennese director and actor, and Betty Compson, is an amazing all-talking dramatic sensation with songs and dancing, and wholly in technicolour. Clive Brook might have been an attorney except for his family’s financial j reverses. He was studying law when | the money trouble came at the oppor- ' tune time to save him for the screen. ( Harry Green is another “might have j fbeen” attorney. He graduated in law from New York "University and prac- j j used for a time before choosing an . j actor’s career in preference.