ATTRACTIONS AT THE MAJESTIC.

Southland Times, Issue 20534, 10 July 1928, Page 5

ATTRACTIONS AT THE MAJESTIC.

To-night: “The Lovelorn” (Sally O’Neill, Molly O’Day), “Irish Hearts” (May McAvoy, Jason Robards), “Rough Seas” (Bobby Ray, comedy). To-morrow: “White Gold” (Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thompson), “Pals in Paradise (Marguerite De La Motte, John Bowers). Saturday: “London After Midnight” (Lon Chaney), “Fingerprints” (Helene Costello, John Murray).

To approach a bashful girl, diplomacy must be used. See “The Lovelorn,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s newest starring vehicle for Sally O’Neill at the Majestic to-night for the last time for further tips on love-mak-ing—and how.

May McAvoy found during the filming of Warner Brothers’ production of “Irish Hearts,” in which she is starred, that she would not make a good “hash house” waitress. The diminutive star experienced considerable inconvenience in delivering orders on a counter which came almost to her shoulder. The sterling cast, including Jason Robards, Warner Richmond, Walter Perry, Kathleen Key, Walter Rodgers and Les Bates is directed by Byron Haskin. “Irish Hearts” is finishing to-night at the Majes. tic.

“Pals in Paradise,” a new Metropolitan production featuring Marguerite De La Motte, John Bowers, Rudolph Schildkraut and May Robson, will be on view at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. George B.' Seitz, who did such wonderful things with “The Last Frontier,” directed the picture. The screen adaptation was made by Will M. Ritchey.

Striking a new and higher note in motion picture production, “White Gold,” a new picture starring Jetta Goudal and featuring Kenneth Thomson as leading man is opening to-morrow at the Majestic. Filled with dramatic action, tenseful and compelling, this is said to be one of the most unusyal photoplays in which the exotic Jetta Goudal has appeared and all who witnessed her remarkable work in “Three Faces East” will await her latest starring effort with genuine interest.

Louise Fazenda in “Finger Prints,” a Master Picture release, comes to the Majestic Theatre next Saturday. This Warner production is a picturization of Arthur Somers Roche’s mystery-comedy, the adaptation having been done by Graham Baker and Edward Clark. Lloyd Bacon directed. The cast includes John T. Murray, Helene Costello, Myrna Loy, George Nichols, Martha Mattox, Franklin Pangborn, Ed. Kennedy, William Demarest, and others. In “Finger Prints,” Miss Fazenda’s first starring vehicle, she is again seen as the gaping, startled kittenish, clever maid-of-all-work, amid a gang of notorious mail robbers.

“THE MISSING LINK.” FEATURING SYD. CHAPLIN. Charles F. Reisner, versatile director of Warner Bros.’ production of “The Missing Link,” released by Master Pictures and starring Syd. Chaplin, has added one more to the list of his accomplishments. He has become an animal trainer. Reisner has done almost everything there is to do in the entertainment world. Among the ways in which he has earned his living are boxing, wrestling, “bouncing,” tumbling, monologue, roller-skating, dancing, singing, song-writing, speech-making, toast-master-ing, radio, broadcasting, screen-writing, screen acting, gag-mongering and directing. In “The Missing Link,” “Akka,” a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee, has a large role. At first his trainer directed “Akka” altogether, but it was not long until the director and the monk were on the best of terms. Reisner began to take over his direction more and more until near the end of the picture he could direct him without any aid whatever from the master. “I treat him like a human being,” said Reisner. when asked the secret of his power. “ ‘Akka’ is like a child. Being an experienced father, I found it an easy matter to direct him, after I caught on to his several little mental quirks.” Syd. Chaplin, in ‘The Missing Link,” comes to the Majestic Theatre soon. It is the biggest laughing thriller of the year! MASTER PICTURE NEWS. “The Ghost Train,” soon to be released in New Zealand. That screamingly funny thriller which did enormous business through New Zealand as a stage attraction, will shortly be seen as a picture. Just completed in England, it brings to the front a well-known English legitimate performer, named Guy Newall. If anything, it is considered to be even more thrilling and laughable than the stage production. “College Widow,” with Dolores Costello Dolores Costello, the charming star of “Old San Francisco,” “His Lady” and_other Warner productions, will shortly be Seen in a delightful comedy, “The College Widow.” The daughter of a college principal, she uses her feminine charms to lure good footballers to her father’s college. She succeeds only too well and is found out. However, she manages to straighten things out eventually, but her entanglements create a series of screamingly funny situations. Jack Holt in “The Tigeress.” That virile masculine star, Jack Holt, so often seen in Western stories, and just recently featured in ‘The Warning,” will shortly be seen with the same cast in “The Tigress.” Dorothy Revier also has a very good part, and she and Jack Holt provide their patrons with thrills aplenty. Rinty takes the air—like Lindy. “A Dog of the Regiment,” the Master Picture soon to be released in New Zealand, is the first of all the star’s thrillers in which he flies. He not only rescues his pal, an American Ace, from a burning plane, but escapes with him .in one, and being ordered shot, again whirls to the sky and safety. Most exciting of all Rin-Tin-Tin’s films, and that’s saying a lot. Rose Lederman directed. Dorothy Gulliver, appearing in support- of Rin-Tin-Tin in the Master Picture, “A Dog of the Regiment,” soon to be released in the Dominion, was born and educated in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her first screen work was for Universal in two-reel Westerns. She played lead opposite Jack Hoxie in “The Fighting Three,” Neil Hamilton in “Shield of Honour” and George Lewis in “Collegians,” a series. Miss Gulliver is the wife of, C. W. De Vito, assistant director from Universal. Her hobbies are riding and tennis. In “A Dog of the Regiment” she plays the part of a Red Cross nurse with the German Army during the World War.

North woods to desert. In 1924 Irene Rich was William Russell’s leading lady in a North-w’est picture. Now Mr Russell is Miss Rich’s leading man in ‘The Desert Woman,” her latest starring production for Warner Bros., directed by Michael Curtiz, and depicting a burning melodrama of desert loves and hates. Irene Rich is magnificent as the lady of the outpost, torn between lonliness and duty and the love of a young soldier through whom both lives are imperilled. This Master Picture- is shortly to be released in New Zealand.