MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"SERVICE DE LUXE." “Sex-vice De Luxe” concludes tonight at the Majestic Theatre. The Madison Service in New York does everything for its clients from tying a dress tie to buying steam rollers, and supplies working minds for those not possessed of them. Lost necklaces, decamped flappers, mislaid passports, and a host of other annoyances are dealt with expeditiously and satisfactorily, but it is not until a young man from the country arrives with plans for a three-way tractor that things start to move. He appears to be the one male out of captivity with a mind of his own, but when he meets and falls in love with the senior Madison partner (Constance Bennett) he is unconsciously drawn into the clutches of the service. Constance Bennett, as the supreme dispenser of service, gives what is probably her brightest comedy role to date. “Marie Antoinette.” “Marie Antoinette,” which heads tomorrow's programme at the Majestic Theatre, is a triumph of the motion picture art. More than that, it is a triumph for Norma Shearer. Magnificent in its pageantry, with brilliant costumes and setting, flawlessly cast with such famed film names as Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, and scores of others, these were secondary to Miss Shearer’s absorbingly human interpretation of a woman sometimes carefree, ofttimes desperate, seeking for happiness. The story has gripping power on the screen because it is so simply told. Miss Shearer’s “Antoinette” is a girl eager to be in love and bo loved, who finds herself married to a moronic husband, a role superbly played by Robert Morley, young English actor making his first motion picture appearance. When he fails her and his country through weakness of mind and spirit, she seeks escape in mad pleasures and dangerous flirtations. But in the end, she cannot escape her destiny as the last Queen of France. "Marie Antoinette” is thoroughly entertaining.