MAJESTIC THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 5

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“ONE THIRD OF A NATION" AND CHARLIE 'RUGGLES IN “NIGHT WORK” An outstanding double-feature programme opens to-day at the Majestic Theatre and will continue until. Saturday. A roaring attack on American slum conditions, with a girl tenement dweller and a social-minded young millionaire leading the battle against the powerful vested interests, is made in the new Paramount screen drama, “One Third of a Nation,” the film version of the play that created a sensation on Broadway and in dozens of America’s leading cities a season ago. Against the dramatic .background of the worst New York slums, with all their filth, squalor, disease and hopelessness, “One Third of a Nation” tells an amazing story of what takes place when a courageous girl who hates the slums enlists the aid of the man she loves in building'a new life for the nation's “submerged third.” Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, teamed together for the first time, play the embattled youngsters who fight corruption, convention and vested interests. The further—and funnier—adventures of that merry screen menage, the “Fitches,” are recounted in the new Paramount comedy, “Night Work,” the associate feature. With that grand team, Mary Bbland and Charlie Ruggles, cast again as the average man-and-wife, the story tells how they attempt to adopt “Butch,” the boy. to whom they gave a home in “Boy Trouble." “Butch,” played again by Donald O'Connor, wants to stay with Miss Boland and Ruggles. bui a problem arises on the scene in the person of “Butch’s” testy, steeplejack grandfather. He has to be convinced that Ruggles is a fit father—and it takes plenty of convincing, what with Ruggles constantly being put on the spot by the tough staff • and the tenants of the apartment house which he is managing. The programme opens with the serial “Oregon Trail.”