THEATRE MAJESTIC

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 16

THEATRE MAJESTIC

“Honolulu” From an unusual start, “Honolulu,” which has entered the second week of a season at the Theatre Majestic, goes on to tell of the fortunes of Brooks Mason, a famous film star, and Joe Smith, from a pineapple plantation in Honolulu, who happens to be Brooks’ double. In spite of the familiar thread on which the story is strung, most of the situations turn out to lie beads tJiat sparkle fairly brightly. Snappy dialogue ami amusing happenings make it a lively and entertaining film.

Robert Young takes the two parts of Brooks .Mason and Joe Smith. The story opens in New York with Mason harassed by his admiring "fans” who give him such a rough time whenever lie appears in public that he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and longs for peace and quietness. While attending a preview his double i>s mistaken, quite naturally, for the film star, and is mobbed. lie is hurt and taken in an ambulance to the star’s apartment. 'There Mason persuades him to change identities, as Joe Smith has come from Honolulu to gain poise and sophistication, ami Matron desires nothing more than a chance to go out to Joe's pineapples. On the vessel Brooks' meets Eleanor Powell and Gracie Allen who are on their way to take part in a cabaret show. After that the story takes the course one would expect it to. Mason falls in love with Eleanor, but finds that, as Joe Smith, he has a fiancee waiting for him. He is accused of embezzlement and is taken to the local jail. Through a misunderstanding, Eleanor and he become estranged. He cannot get in touch with the real Joe Smith because the star's agent never lets him read his own correspondence. And so it. goes on.