THE MAJESTIC.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 7

THE MAJESTIC.

Laura La Flante, who made her talking debut in "The Show Boat," is entitled to have a better comedy written round her than "Hold Your Man." which, does ■ not always embody the soul of wit, though good enough as film comedies go. Miss La Plante is bright and winsome, and makes the most of the role of a rather lisht-lAaded American wifo who leaves her New York husband to study art in Paris, and who meets there with adventures that drive her back to the marital partnership she has determined to break. Scott Kolk plays the American husband—too much wrapped up in. his law and egotism—and Eugene Borden is the model who In Paris tries to Initiate the deserting wife Into the cave-love supposed to bo associated with . the Apache. Mildred Van Dora is t!ie most ill-used member of the cast, because she has to play "the other woman" in peculiarly distressing circumstances, and is finally cold-watered in a manner not Justified by her visible shfs. The dialogue is fairly well heard, ami its sallies were well appreciated by the large audience that witnessed the change of programme at the Majestic last evening. In the supporting programme, the Universal News Reel News, interpreted by an aimounccr who was' humorous and who enunciated clearly, showed the Streseman funeral, distinguished by such non-Prussian elements as the absence of military pomp and the presence of a President (Hindenburg) who walked; fashion parades Indicating that skirts will be longer, with higher waist line; Mexico's celebration of Columbus Day (in Mexico, said this American announcer. Columbus Day is a bigger event than in U.S.A.) ; grape harvest, old-time motoring, etc. A pair of Uebrcw comedians exchanged words which were not , heard distinctly, but one of them enthused .the house with his dancing. The Fox Movietone News ~> showed some out-of-the-common views of an aeroplane carrier, and the taking off and landing of aeroplanes on its deck, and the smoke-screen work of both aeroplanes and surface craft. The Fox Movietone News also showed some very vocal Moutana sheep returning to the lowlands from summer feeding in the mountains; and one of the best items was Miss Ishbel Mac Donald's dignified speech, in which the Prime Minister's daughter cautioned the rising generation not to let tho glamour and glory of war blind them to its horror and futility. "The Collegians" is the usual basket-ball story of jealousy and cattiness sublimated by love. A bright spot in every sense is Gus Edwards's technicolour series of popular songs and old favourites, sung. by vocalists in costume and pose • the numbers include "By the Silvery Moon," and "Jimmy Valentine." The programme has the merit of diversity.