MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 15

MAJESTIC

HOLIDAY PROGRAMME TO-DAY A programme which should be popular with everybody is being screened at the Majestic Theatre. Commencing to-day, the management of the Majestic Theatre is screening during the day sessions a special children's programme with pictures which will delight both the youngsters and their parents. First on the list is Jackie Coogan’s latest picture, “The Bugle Call," a stirring story of Red Indian warfare.

There are many real Indians in it,

a tribe commanded by Chief Standing Bear and several others, al playing screen actors for the replicas of historic plain battles. The new story is a vivid drama of life in the plains in the *7o’s, with Jackie as the son of a cavalry captaifi in a frontier

post. Claire Wind-

sor plays the heroine, and Herbert Rawlinson, Tom O’Brien, Bodil Rosing, Sarah Padden, Johnny MackBrown and others of note are in the cast, directed by Edward Sedgwick. An attractive Majestic News includes many and varied scenes, among which are views of Alpine Hoods (Switzerland), monkey athletes diving, a review of Italian cavalry, the rescue of Ruth Elder, the latest airplane, a German Buck type airplane, railways ancient and modern, thrilling scenes in which nine people jump with parachutes from one airplane, and a Tiny Tots Floral Review. In the Eve’s Review, Majestic patrons will see a camera interview with Chaliapin, the famous singer, who visited New Zealand some months ago, the latest in Tiny Tots cycles, a unique Nature study film, “Original Gossips,” the Owls, the misdoings of “just a pup” called “Pete,” and a very beautiful scenic of Bunoon, where Burns’s immortal “Highland Mary” was born, and scenes of the many beauty spots on Loch Lomond. Then there is an enchanting New Zealand scenic, “Moutain Trails,” and an hilarious Big Boy comedy, “Kid Tricks,” in which the clever two-year-old player presents his best performance to date.

At the evening session the chief pictorial attraction will be “Spring Fever,” starring William Haines, which has been described as “an hilarious mixture of golf and mirth.”

The new picture is a comical story centring about the links, with Haines as a shipping clerk who becomes a golf expert, teaches the boss the game, and is thus enmeshed in a score of comical trials and tribulations. Joan Crawford plays the heroine, and the cast includes besides Fawcett such notables as George Iv. Arthur, Lee Moran, late of the famous team of Lyons and Moran. Edward Earle, Eileen Percy, Bert Woodruff of ‘\Fire Brigade” fame, and many others of note.

A very cliarming miniature Majestic pantomime is being presented by Misses Beryl Nettleton and Marjorie Turner. Among their charming and

clever juvenile performers are David Lunny, the popular .Auckland boy soloist, who sings “Your Own Pierrot,” and Doreen O’Leary, who sings “The Doll Dance.” A quaint and amusing little trio, “Jack in the Box,” is sung by Ira Ardley, Doreen O’Leary and David Lunny. The musical programme to b~ presented by the Majestic Orchestra, under Mr. Whiteford-Waugh, promises to be of a very high standard. Among the many musical gems played are “Reverie” (Eierman). “Metropolitan Opera House Melodies,” “Petite Suite” (Chaminade), “Fantasia” (Wolf - Terrari). “Scheherasade” and “Lohengrin” (Wagner).