MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19972, 5 July 1930, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

"FOOTLIGHTS AND FOOLS."

Judging from the remarkable success enjoyed by her second talking picture, "Footlights and Pools," it seems reasonably safe to predict that Colleen Moore has entered the ranks of those few screen artists who command as largo a following in these days of audiblo productions as they did in the heyday of their silent fame. Colleen Moore, who was, a few years ago, nothing more than a particularly clover comedienne, has blossomed forth as a star of the dancing and singing screen, and she has, at the Majestic Theatre next week, an excellent medium for displaying theso talents to the full. "Footlights and Fools" has rather more to it than most song-and-dance films. It is first and foremost a comedy, agreeably embellished with lavish sots, adorned with pretty women in attractive gowns, and ha 3 two leading men who give to it something more than a mere romantic note. In parts, this picture is very much a drama. On tho other hand, much spontaneous comedy is supplied by the star herself as Fill d'Auray, a temperamental French actress who, in private lifo, is Betty Murphy. Colleen Mooro brings a wealth of humour to this part, and with her bright singing and dancing, she raises her socond talkie into tho ranks of tho head-liners. Among the many songs she sings * Tilly Pom Pom Plee" stands out. Raymond Hackett and Frederic Marclt are her leading men, and her brother Cleve Mooro has a prominent part. This is on# of tho best pictures ever screened at the Majestic Theatre. The supporting programme is equally interesting. The box plana are at Tho Bristol I'iano Company.