MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“LADIES MUST DRESS” TO-NIGHT Once again the Majestic management offers to Auckland picturegoers a brilliant array of pictorial, musical, and stage attractions. Week after week, the Majestic Theatre is foremost in the field in offering programmes of unsurpassable interest to its patrons, and this week’s programme is no exception. There is not only one big attraction on the programme, but six, one. and all of the same high-class entertainment. First there is “Ladies Must Dress,” a hilarious comedy-drama, with Virginia Valli and Lawrence Gray in the main roles. In the opening scenes of the picture Miss Valli appears in crude, ill-fitting dresses, in order to build up the drama Gray, cast as her sweetheart, objects most strenuous!: to her awkward appearance. Later, when her quick-witted little friend, Maizie, has ripped off her own clothing, and dressed Miss Valli in them, one beholds a swift and amazing transformation. From a slow-moving, drowsy frump, she develops into a smartly outfitted woman of the world, and the contrast is little short of remarkable. Even her actions change, and the swift transition is completed when she goes in for night clubs and all the attendant glitter. t In addition, there is "The Low Meeker,” a comedy in which tin-ills and laughter are cleverly intermixed, and a Majestic Mazagine, the latest pictorial record of world-wide, events. There is also one of those amusing Aesop fable cartoons, “In the Good Old Summer,” and a beautiful scenic, “Ship Ahoy,” which takes patrons on a thrilling trip across the Atlantic in a windjammer. On the stage is a delightful stage interlude by a very talented dancing duo, Lola Meigh and Mr. Gee, who will present "The Dolls’ Dance,” "Les Myrtes,” and “Frenchmen’s Millions.” Meanwhile, the musical side of the programme has not been forgotten. Mr. J. Whiteford-Waugh and his Majestic Orchestra will give a beautiful programme of musical gems, popular and classical, and will special feature as the overture "Jolly Musicians.”