MAJESTIC THEATRE

Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 16

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“HELL-SHIP MORGAN” A big audience thoroughly enjoyed the thrills of adventure aboard a tuna-fishing boat, followed by a delightfully intriguing comedy romance at the Majestic Theatre last evening. “Hell-Ship Morgan” is the title of the picture which provides the thrills, which are amply supplied by Victor Jory, Ann Sothern and George Bancroft. The comedy-romance is a most pleasing story called “Adventure in Manhattan,” in which Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea provide a succession of merry interludes in a story that has a dash of mystery, though comedy predominates.

BEGINNING TOMORROW PREMIERE OF “IT ISN’T DONE” Cinesound arranged with British International Pictures for the assistance of the English organization in procuring important sequences for “It Isn’t Done,” the first Australian picture with a genuine all-star cast, which has its New Zealand premiere at the Majestic tomorrow. An Elstree Studio and a complete technical unit were placed at the disposal of Cinesound’s London representative, who supervised the taking of the requisite shots with the assistance of a well-known English director. Exteriors of English homes, hunting scenes and glimpses of the countryside were shot and despatched by air mail to the director, Mr Ken G. Hall, for incorporation in the film. Production on “It Isn’t Done” also included some of the most ambitious sets yet built for an Australian picture. Among these were the Blaydon lounge, with its rich panelled walls, the Great Hall, also one of the largest interiors ever used at Cinesound, the picture gallery, with its huge framed portraits, Hubert Blaydon’s bedroom, and a London night club. The latter set, designed by Mr Eric Thompson, Cinesound’s art director, who recently returned to Australia after 10 years in. Hollywood, gives a lighter mood to the film, with its white and silver walls, tall windows and decorative doors in ebony, scarlet and silver. Many extras were used in this scene, and over 100 well-known members of Sydney society danced in the club ballroom. A modern comedy romance- of an Australian squatter who inherits an English earldom and takes London society by storm, “It Isn’t Done” includes in its all-star cast such sterling favourites of stage and screen as Cecil Kellaway, Frank Harvey, John Longden, Nellie Ferguson, Harvey Adams,. Campbell Copelin and Sylvia Kellaway, together with Australia’s new star “discovery,” lovely Shirley Ann Richards. Maybe “It Isn’t Done” to blow one’s own trumpet, but in “It Isn’t Done,” Cinesound has something worth blowing about—a brilliantly produced comedy-romance, sparkling with bright, breezy entertainment, and indeed worthy of the world’s applause-