MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 609, 11 March 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“A DAUGHTER OF AUCKLAND” The locally-made picture, “A Daughter of Auckland,” delighted another large audience at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday evening. The amusing story of a Southern reformer's terrible experience in Auckland is worked out against a background of familiar landmarks such as th Civic Square and the Pirate Shippe. Hildred Graham has the leading feminine role as a very modern flapper, and Edward Armitage, Jack Read and Arthur Lord have supporting roles.

An excellent version of life in military school is the second picture at the Majestic in Fox Films’ “Prep and Pep.”

This is a colourful picture of the transition of a timid boy to the athletic honour student of the academy, and the picture abounds in entertainment value and clean, wholesome humour throughout. David Butler, who has brought to the screen the best that can be given in modern youth pictures, deserves much credit for his capable direction of this picture. In the featured roles are David Rollins, Nancy Drexel and John Darrow, who are undeniably the best examples of what youngsters in motion pictures have to give the screen. Rollins’s smile wins all hearts. He is ideally cast as the timid boy who fights a great fight to win himself a place in the school’s athletic history. Nancy Drexel has more than beauty, and is a capable little actress with a sparkling personality as the feminine interest, and Darrow is Flash Wells, the rival.

“Prep and Pep” is the story of Cyf il Reade, the son of Calvert’s most famous athlete, Tiger Reade. Cyril comes to school the polished son—a timid boy——bashful and unassuming. The entire school expects gre%t things of Cyril. Flash Wells makes it a point to enter Cyril in all contests. Cyril meets oife inglorious defeat after another, and brokenhearted, plans to* run away. Made to see his mistake bv the commandant and his lovely daughter, Dorothy, with whom he is in love,’ he decides to win and uphold the name of his famous father. From that point on the action is fast and furious, vividly depicting a. boy’s fight tor supremacy and ending in a thrill-, ing climax when he rescues Dorothy irom a prairie fire.

The excellent supporting programme includes a Fox variety, “New York 1 o-day,” an “Our Gang” comedy and a Majestic Magazine. On the musical side there is a piccolo solo by Mr. Frank Poore, and items by Miss Madge Clague, contralto. Mr. WhitefordWaugh’s Majestic Orchestra provides the music.