MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE LILY OF KILLARNEY” Picturegoers by this time must have changed their views on British films if the Majestic’s screening of “The Lily of Killarney” is any criterion. From the start to the finish the film holds the audiences every night in rapt attention with its unusual plot, beautiful scenery, acting and photography. It was adapted from the famous stage play, “Colleen Bawn” by Dion Boucicault, which had an extended run in Lomdon. The featured roles aVe taken by several newcomers to the screen, which shows England is looking for new faces to brighten the screens of the world. Among them are Pamela Parr, Gillian Dean and Cecil Landeau. Bringing to the screen for the first time in important roles two admirable young players, and bringing back, after an absence of nearly two years, a director who has made many outstanding pictures, is “The Veiled Woman,” the second picture on the current programme. The story, typically Parisian in theme and settings, is extremely interesting. Nanon, daughter of a fine but impoverished family, is employed in a beauty shop to support her sick father. Her fiance refuses to marry her because the family fortune is lost. She attempts to steal a necklace to get money for medicine for her father, but is saved from becoming a thief by Pierre, a gigolo, who happens to see her. Pierre hears her story, helps her with money, and she becomes a lure for his gambling house. The Majestic programme also includes two interesting gazettes, and new musical selections by Mr. WTiiteford Waugh’s orchestra.