THE MAJESTIC

Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 5

THE MAJESTIC

Now Showing: "Naughty Marietta” (Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester). Commencing Friday: "Forsaking AU Others” (Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford. Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth, Billie Burke). Coming Attractions: "The Night is Young" (Evelyn Laye, Ramon Novarro, Charles Butterworth, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, Donald Cook); "All The King's Horses” (Carl Brisson. Mary Ellis, Katherine de Mille. Edward Everett Horton); "David Copperfield” (W. C. Fields, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allen, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Williams): “Jane Eyre” (Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, Jameson Thomas, David Torrence, Lionel Belmore).

The film “Forsaking All Others,” coming to the Majestic on Friday, is based on the play in which Tallulah Bankhead scored one of her biggest Broadway hits. The cast is probably the biggest all-star one since “Dinner At Eight,” and is headed by Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Charles Butterworth and Billie Burke. As a light comedienne, left standing at the altar one minute and pursued by two handsome men in the next, Joan Crawford is said to be at her best. This is the first time Joan has attempted pure comedy. Gable and Montgomery are both well known as masters of light comedy and they vie to outdo one another with the many hilarious situations of the story. Billie Burke appears as a flibberty-jibberty society matron, Charles Butterworth is at his most awkward best as Gable’s friend, virtually his shadow. This should be an enjoyable entertainment.

Once more Ramon Novarro is appearing in romantic uniforms such as he wore in “The Prisoner of Zenda,” “The Student Prince” and others of his outstanding successes. Tailors fabricated a series of elaborate outfits for him for his latest appearance in “The Night Is Young,” glamorous romance of Vienna in which he and Evelyn Laye, British singing star, are lovers. The new picture, which comes soon to the Majestic Theatre, is a glamorous story with haunting music, dealing with the Imperial Ballet in Vienna, and the love of a young archduke and a ballet dancer, these roles being played by. the two co-stars. With libretto by Oscar Kammerstein and music by Sigmund Romberg, the team that gave the theatre “Desert Song,” “New Moon” and such hits, the picture is set in spectacular surroundings, such as the great Vienna Opera, the Royal Box, the Emperor’s Palace, the famous Vienna Prater, or great amusement park, and in quaint Viennese wine gardens, cafes and other continental play spots.

A gay and tuneful romantic comedy about the king who had to take lessons in love to hold his charming wife, Paramount’s “All the King’s Horses,” starring Carl Brisson and Mary Ellis comes soon to the Majestic Theatre. Brisson, as the king, exasperates his romantic and loving wife with his grave affairs of state and the ancestral beard, which he refuses to shave until .the queen leaves him to live alone in a villa. She swears never to return until he has reformed. The story has been embellished with songs by Sam Coslow, author of “Cocktails for Two,” and elaborate and colourful dance routines by Le Roy Prinz. Two of the tunes, “A Little White Gardenia” and “When My Prince Charming Comes Along,” are already established as popular hits.