ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 127, 11 March 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MAJESTIC THEATRE. Not only is Miss Swanson- seen at the height of her charm in “The Trespasser,’’ the great all-talkring film to ;ne shown again to-night, but for the fust time she is heard from the screen in this, her first all-dialogue film. She not only talks, she sings two songs. One is a standard work, well known to music lovers. The other, “Love,” was especially composed for her by Edmund Goulding. author and director of the .picture. Laid as it is among the wealthy and fashionable “Four Hundred” in the Lake Shore Drive district of Chicago, _ the story of “ The Trespasser” particularly lends itself to a brilliance in background and dress. At the same time, the vehicle embodies nerhaps the most human theme Miss Swanson has yet interpreted. There are good supporting pictures, the programme being one of the best since talking films were first shown here. “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.” There was a large attendance at the Majestic Theatre yesterday afternoon, when the junior pupils of Mrs Alfred Smith presented the colourful and charming fairy operetta, “Beauty and the Beast.” The young people handled their parts well, and the production was voted a huge success.