MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE GHOST TALKS” It is a pleasure to hear a picture that combines so many trained voices as “The Ghost Talks,” an all-talking feature length farce comedy made by Fox Movietone process, which is now at the Majestic Theatre. Beginning with the two youthful leads, Charles Eaton and Helen Twelvetrees, Broadway stage favourites, and going all the way through the large cast, not a flaw can be found in diction, spacing, volume (.consistent with personality) or delivery. A natural result of success before the footlights, for only one member of the cast is strictly a motion picture Dlayer. Such is the revolutionary change wrought by talking pictures. Lew Seiler directs tliis hilarious, crookish farce comedy, with results supported by the roars of the audience. He is a veteran Fox Films director, and knows his humour. The cast includes Charles Eaton, Helen Twelvetrees, Carmel Myers, Earle Foxe, Stepin Fetchit, Baby Mack, Arnold Lucy, Clifford Dempsey arid others. All the excitement, action and entertainment packed into “The Ghost Talks” happens in the original story in the same time it takes to unreel the picture; that is, less than two hours. The excitement, by the way, is of tho comic kind. Incidentally, there is not a lap dissolve in the film and only one fadeout—the end.

This is the first feature length, alltalking farce comedy to be produced by Fox Movietone.

In addition to an excellent programme of short talking and singing featurettes, this entertainment will be notable for the appearance of Mr. Whiteford-Waugh’s Majestic Stage Band, of individual soloists, . playing many new selections and old favourites.