MAJESTIC FEATURES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)

MAJESTIC FEATURES

GAYNOR—FARRELL TEAM. WILL ROGERS FOR THURSDAY. The sheer charm of “IDelieious, ” the leading picture at the Majestic Theatre commenced yesterday and received a most enthusiastic reception. It continues until Wednesday. The story does not matter. Suffice it to say that it is the conventional theme of rich man—poor girl in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell have always been associated. It is the charm whcih has been instilled into the plot and acting that makes “Delicious”” a perfect entertainment for young and old. It is the best film that Gaynor and Farrell have appeared in, for it is more charming by far than “Merely Mary Ann,” less sophisticated and consequently having a wider appeal than “High Society Blues,” has more body than “Sunny Side Up,” and is far superior in technique to “Seventh Heaven.” Then there is the music of George Gershwin, the composer of many noted musical comedies. His score for the picture comprises the theme song “Delicious,” “Somebody From Nowhere,” “Katinkitschka,” “Blah, Blah, Blah,” and the sensational New York Rhapsody. The lyrics ar. written by Ira Gershwin, a brother of the composer, and the words are dexterously coined to meet the requirements of the catchy music. Will Rogers dressed in a boiled shirt, hs the backwoods American ambassador attached to an etiquette-ridden European court. Such is the guise in which we see the famous funster in * 1 Ambassador Bill, ’ ’ his latest Fox picture, opening at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday as an envoy whose first diplomatic (?) act is to suggest that they call off a special presentation because the queen has “hurty feet.” “Ambassador Bill” is a perfect “fit” for the famous reporter-actor due to the fact that it allows him to “be himself.” Famous as a pungent commentator on current topics, a-d as an “unofficial ambassador” sent to laugh international troubles away, this film simply makes him re-live events that he must know by heart. Laid in the timely scene of a glamorous little kingdom ruled over by a boy, it deals with the political machinations of a wily dictator to make himself the real % power behind the throne. Rogers, in the role of the worldly-wise “Dollar JJill” Harper, has something to say

about this, however. And says it, ■naturally, in a manner that would make anybody laugh. One of the most sensational and spectacular productions of the year is “Hell Divers,” the remarkable show coming to the Majestic Theatre, next »Saturday. The flying service of the United States, as well as the country’s navy, co-operated in the making of this picture. The Akron, the largest airship in the world, and the new air-craft-carrier, Saratoga, are used in the