MAJESTIC THEATRE
“The Great Ziegfeld” A crowded theatre greeted the screening of “The Great Ziegfeld” at the Majek. tic Theatre last night, the film being now in its third week in Wellington. It is a romantic story of the great producer, filmed with most spectacular settings nnd ensembles. William Powell plays the name part, and Louise Rainer and Myrna Loy make an exceptionally fine supporting combination, and in their portrayals of Anna Held and Billie Burke, are convincing and have well-written parts. Fanny Brice, with that facility of emotion, that magnificent voice and strange vibrant personality which have made her famous, appears as herself, and so does Ray Bolger, surely the most eccentric as well as the most brilliant of tap dancers. Harriet Hoctor, a leading Ziegfeld dancer, is also there, and so are the spectacles which Ziegfeld enjoyed, the dressing up of girls in magnificent creations, and the surrounding of them with magnificent settings. To-day all restrictions on the admission of children are removed.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 13
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