MAJESTIC THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 11

MAJESTIC THEATRE

"The Girl of the Golden West."

Surpassing all their previous screen appearances in the language of music, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are seen and heard in an exquisite panorama of romance and song in "The Girl of the Golden West," which commences on Friday at the Majestic Theatre. The.lovely new songs heard in the picture include "Senorita," '"Soldiers ,of Fortune," "The Wind in the Trees," "Shadows on the Moon," "Who Are We to Say," "From Sun-up to Sundown," and "Mariachie," which is the theme of a lavish Spanish festival. In the story,, Mary, owner of a dance hall, is loved by the gambling sheriff, Jack Ranee. On her way to Monterey her stage coach is held up by the romantic masked bandit, Ramerez, with whom she later falls in love, believing him to be Lieutenant Dick Johnson. A former sweetheart betrays Ramerez. He escapes, wounded, in a gun fight with the sheriff, but is captured later in Mary's cabin. After being caught. r cheating in a game of cards withf Ranee for the bandit's wife, Mary; agrees to marry the sheriff if he will liberate Ramerez. On the day of the * wedding Ranee again finds the lovers together, and the picture ends with a very ingenious climax. The deft ts4Kh of Robert Z. Leonard, the director, ffid the flawless photography of Oliver Marsh, cameraman, have made "The Girl o£ the Golden West" a beautiful pictuv^. Praise also goes to the supporting cast, outstanding members of which are Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo. Buddy Ebsen, Leonard Penn, Priscilla Lawson, Bob Murphy, Olin Howland, Cliff Edwards. Billy Bevan, Bvandon Tynan, H. B. Warner, and Monty Wooltey,