MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 995, 11 June 1930, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“HIT THE DECK” Nine delightful song numbers, led by that ever-compelling “Hallelujah,” add much to the enjoyment local screen fans are finding in “Hit the Deck,” Radio Pictures’ lavish musical comedy current at the Majestic Theatre.

Old songs and new share about equally in popularity. While “Hallelujah” and “Sometimes I’m Happy” bring memories of the sensationally successful stage show, “Keeping Myself Just For You” and “Harbour Of My Heart”

are reminders that the screen is giving us something entirely and pleasingly different.

The first two songs, “Join the Navy” and “Looloo,” are sung by the sailors’ chorus. These are followed by an original screen number, “Sez You. Sez Me,” offered by Jack Oakie and a number of chorus girls.

Oakie and Polly Walker then sing the new hit, “Harbour Of My Heart,” followed by “Hallelujah.”

“Smith,” sung by the sailors’ chorus, epens the spectacular battleship sequence, filmed in brilliant technicolour. During the same sequence the Brox Sisters offer “Nothing Could Bo Sweeter,” and Miss Walker with the girls sing “Keeping Myself Just For You,” another of the new numbers instantly established in popularity. Oakie and Miss Walker sing Yoilman's hit from the stage show. “Sometimes I’m Happy,” bringing the tuneful wonder show to its close. Bright supports complete a bright programme.