MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“A WOMAN REDEEMED” A young British inventor perfects a hovering airplane which will make its owners masters of the world. The inventor sells this airplane to the British Government. In the meantime, the Council of Seven, the leaders of a world-wide revolutionary movement, arrange to steal the plans of this plane, using a beautiful girl as their decoy. Such is the opening of the thrilling British him, “A Woman Redeemed,” to be seen at the Majestic Theatre this evening. The inventor is played by Brian Aherne, the girl by Joan Lockton, and the leader of the revolutionaries by James Carew. The action is played for the most part in the West End of London and in Whitehall, but very important sequences are laid in Paris, on the Southern Railway and at Croydon. The Paris scenes were filmed chiefly on the Boulevards, the stars of the Paris scenes a team of Paris taxis. Anyone who has had experience of the Boulevard-hogging practised by the typical Parisian taxi driver will realise the thrilling possibilities of such a sequence. Ordnary cinematography being quite unable to keep up with the Paris taxi, Sinclair llill used a travelling camera, which is guaranteed to keep pace even with this speedy vehicle.

Imperial Airways gave facilities for an important part of the picture to be made at the Croydon Airdrome. Just because a waitress in California inserted a matrimonial advertisement in a New York paper, a fun campaign started which will circle the world.

In other words, that advertisement cause* all the trouble and fun in “Homesick,” Fox Film featuring Sammy Cohen, which is the second picture at the Majestic. Marjorie Beebe was the waitress and Sammy Cohen and Harry Sweet, the two chaps who read it. There was a catch in the advertisement, for the girl who wanted a husband required him to be provided - with enough lucre to purchase a chicken ranch. Neither Sammy nor Harry had other than a bad penny, but Fate, in the shape of a poster advertising a long-distance bicycle race, with £ 5,000 first prize, gave them an idea. They enter the race, and the fun starts. The programme also includes musi-

cal selections by Mr. Whiteford Waugh’s Majestic Orchestra.