MAJESTIC THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10734, 3 November 1928, Page 6

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“DANCING VIENNA” AND “THE AGE OF CADS,”

“Dancing Vienna,” the First National special and “The Ace of Cads” Paramount feature, are the outstanding attractions at -the Majestic at to-day’s- matinee and also 10-niglit. ' _ “Dancing Vienna” is a delightful romance of the European stage that has as its basis the contrast between jazz and waltz time, as applied, to the modern audience. Lya Mara typifies the Viennese sentiment of the waltz while Ben Lyon, one of the leading Amrican actors, presents the case for iazz. Throughout the film dancing is well to the fore. The story of the “Dancing Vienna” hinges; on the sudden rise to faifle of a European operatic star She is,the daughter of a one-time famous stage star, Mizzi, and seeks to follow in her mothers footsteps. She. meets an American youth who is jazz mad, and he converts her to jazz, and it is 1m Hn.s method of entertaining that Fntaa, as she is known, leaps to fame and marries the American youth in spite of the protestation of his, rich tathThe second attraction “The Ace of Cads” features Adolphe Menjou This is the picturization of the. famous short story written by AUcliae Arlen> author of “The Green Hat and “These Charming People The character, "that of Chapel! Maturm, who will not kiss a woman unless she wants him to kiss her, is suitable to the able histrionic abilities ,of the, suave Menjou. Supporting Menjou are such well-known artists as Alice Joycte, Norman Trevor, . Philm Strange and .Suzanne Fleming. Jn addition a capital supporting programme -