The World of Motion Pictures THE MAJESTIC

Southland Times, Issue 25367, 20 August 1935, Page 5

The World of Motion Pictures

THE MAJESTIC

Now Showing: "Forsaking All Others” (Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Charles Butterworth, Billie Burke). Wednesday and Thursday: "Once To Every Woman” (Ralph Bellamy. Fay Wray, Walter Connolly, Mary Carlisle. Walter Byron). Commencing Friday: “The Night is Young” (Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel. Edward Everett Horton, Donald Cook). Coming Attractions: "AU the King’s Horses" (Carl Brisson, Mary Ellis, Edward Everett Horton, Katherine De Mille, Eiytcne Pallette): "Tillie and Gus” (W. C. Fields, Alison Skipworth); “David Copperfield" (Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allen); "Jane Eyre” (Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, Joan Standing, Jameson Thomas, David Torrence, Lionel Belmore, Eileen Pringle). * * * * In “Once to Every Woman,” coming to the Majestic to-morrow, Fay Wray, who in the past year has assumed imposing proportions on the Hollywood horizon, is cast in the featured role of “Mary Fanshawe,” a professional woman who falls in love with Walter Byron, against her better judgment. When Byron is unmasked as a philanderer, she seeks consolation in the

sincere devotion of Ralph Bellamy, a brilliant young surgeon, then to discover that his love is what she had mistakenly believed Byron’s to be. This is merely an outline of the plot. The story is a gripping one and the film, with its distinguished cast and dramatic plot should be excellent entertainment.

Famous paintings come to life in “The Night is Young,” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s glamorous musical romance of Vienna and the Imperial Ballet, which comes on Friday to the Majestic Theatre. Co-starring Ramon Novarro and Evelyn Laye, the new Sigmund Rom-berg-Oscar Hammerstein 11., musical deals with the love of a young archduke and a ballerina at the Imperial Opera. Considerable action takes place in the great opera house, and behind the scenes in the ballet room. So the famous ballet paintings of Degas, the French artist who won world renown for his depictions of “Behind the

Scenes” with the ballet, were copied and special poses made, reproducing them, to start the different action in these sequences. Directed by Dudley Murphy, the new picture, a gay continental romance with haunting melodies, was staged lavishly, huge settings representing the Opera, the palace of the Emperor, the Great Prater or amusement park, and other Viennese haunts, quaint wine shops and such spots. Gorgeous costumes are worn and the romantic atmosphere of Vienna at its gayest is maintained. Among the song hits by the creators of “Desert Song” and “New Moon,” are “When I Grow Too Old To Dream,” “The Night Is Young” “Wiener Schnitzel,” “My Old Mare,” “Lena, I Love You” and “Though I Am a Noble Duchess.”

Carl Brisson, handsome Danish matinee idol, is starred with Mary Ellis, noted singer and stage star, in the new Paramount picture, “All the King’s Horses,” which comes soon to the Majestic Theatre. The picture, which serves as Miss Ellis’s American film debut, features Edward Everett Horton, Katherine DeMille and Eugene Pallette in the supporting cast. New tunes by Sam Coslow, author of “Cocktails for Two/’ and elaborate new dance routines by Leßoy Prinz feature “All the King’s Horses” which tells the gay and amusing tale of a handsome king who knew everything about conferences and little about caresses. The queen leaves the king because she loves him, while the king goes to Vienna to brush up on his neglected education and leaves a charming double to win back the queen.

Jean Parker plays the feminine lead in M.G.M’s. “Murder in the Fleet.” It was rumoured in Hollywood last month that petite Margaret Sullavan was going to divorce her husband, William Wyler, the director. When a correspondent called on Wyleur=at the Fox studios all he would say was: “If you’ve come to talk to me about divorce it’s no good. You’ll have to ask Margaret. She knows the answer .. .” After a frantic five-day search Margaret Sullavan was found living by herself, in an apartment house in a side street off Sunset Boulevard. This is what she said: “Certainly Mr Wyler and I are living apart. But that is because the house is being repainted, and I think it is unhealthy!”