MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Powell and Myrna Loy.

It was left for the inimitable William Powell and his charming colleague of the screen, Myrna Loy, to immortalise the trailer in celluloid. This is the combination which co-stars for the seventh time in "Double Wedding which commences next Friday at the Majestic Theatre. The picture is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's international stage hit, "Great Love." And again, as may be expected, the screen adds to the charm of the original. No more laugh-pro-voking picture has been on a Wellington screen for years. Powell and Miss Lov were delightful in "Libelled Lady,"- "After the Thin Man," and others, but their combination of talents has reached its peak in "Double Wedding." They have the support of an unusually able cast, including Florence Rice and John Beal, as the principals in the first wedding, Jessie Ralph, Edgar Kennedy, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Barnett Parker, Katharine Alexander, and Priscilla Lawson. It is a hand-picked cast. Richard Thorpe, the director, proves his versatility, for it was he who directed the stark picture, "Night Must Fall. The producer was Joseph Manziewicz, one of Hollywood's youngest executives, who earlier produced "Fury, "The Gorgeous Hussy," and "Love on the Run." Powell appears as a penniless artist who lives in a trailer. Arriving in the city he encounters a lovely modiste, manager of a fashionable shop, and falls in love with her. Far from being in love with him, she agrees to pose, and that marks the end of her resistance. The fellow is irresistible. But in the interim there are some of the most humorous sequences that have yet come to the films.