MAJESTIC COMEDIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 12

MAJESTIC COMEDIES.

When ilicee most pictizresque figures of our modern age, Mae West and W C fields, get together in a picture, aetinjr in a story -which they collaborated in writing, something ie bound to lhat>pen ihe film "My Little Chickadee" ie the answer to what did happen. It will be shown for the first time to-mor-row at the Majeetk Theatre. Hailed oversea* an a big event, tne appearance of the two takes place in a Western setting, in Greaeewood CSty, in the wild and lund days of the laite 'eighties. Mae ie cast as a glamorous city belle who takes the town—and W. C. Fields—by etorm. Fields, cast as a medicine man and card-sharper vies with the rest of the lads of the village for fcer jitfectione and it is no eaey task. Joseph Odleia playe the bad man of the city and other, in tine band-picked cast are Donald Meek, Dick Foraa and Fuszy Knight. Mae sings one song with a humorous twiet, "Willie of the Valley." Second on an attractive programme is "Oh, .Johnny, How You Can Love," a bright and scintillating piece of goode that stare Tom Brown and Peggy Moran, with K^?S d ,? la , ye ™, in A,Ven Jenfcine and D°P*W Meek Abo. to be ehown is "The Pyjama Girl Murder," a reconstruction of the Albury case in Australia.