MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 7

MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Christmas Eve Attraction*

Together for the sixth time,- Jeanette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy add prestige as the screen's favourite romantic team in "New Moon," which opens at the Majestic Theatre at 10:15 o'clock on Christmas Eye. Set against the colourful background of 1780 New Orleans, the plot sketches the story of a lady of noble French hirth and a man who, masquerading as a bondsman, manages to elude the guillotine by dropping his official title as foe Due de Villiers. His dream of a republican form of government is realised when, cast upon the shores of an island remote from shipping lanes, he sets up a community with the members of 'his shipwrecked crew and the passengers of the boat New Moon,"which."he and his men seized on the high sea. The action moves from New Orleans to tha island and is replete with, many romantic as well as comedy situations. The varied musical score by Sigmund Romberg is' one of the finest ever presented in a MacDonald-Eddy musical. Miss Mac Donald's solos include the famous "Lover Come Back to Me," "One Kiss," "Paree," and "Rondilet." Together with Eddy she sings "Wanting You," while the "Largo" number is sung by Miss Mac Donald with a choir. Eddy's songs include "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise," "Stout-hearted Men" and- "Shoe Shine Song," and a mala quartet renders the lilting "Mari* anne." The musical numbers were recorded under the direction of Herberi Stothart. ■