MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 26 June 1934, Page 7

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TOM KATZ BAND. The combination of a remarkably suc--1 cessful performance by the Tom Katz • Band, a delightfully funny main feature, and a supporting programme of outstanding excellence makes the entertainment which is being presented at the Majestic Theatre one of the most enjoyable that the management has yet ! provided for its patrons. Attracted mainly by the appearance of the Tom Katz Band, a combination of six saxophone players who have been making a highly successful Dominion tour, a large I audience assembled at the theatre last, night. It is possible that no inconsiderable number of thos present may have placed some limit on their expectations so far as the performance of the band is concerned, for the saxophone is an instrument that has been described by some musicians in terms that are the reverse of flattering. That section of the audience, if it existed, must, however, have had its doubts quickly dispelled when the band made its appearance on the stage. Actually the performance was one that was marked throughout by a high standard of musicianship, and the saxophone was proved to be an instrument that, in the right hands, may be an excellent medium of musical expression. The skill of the players themselves was not the only surprise with which the audience was provided, for the selection of numbers which the band had made was as delightful as it was varied, and the form of musical gymnastics known as “modern jazz” was given no place in the programme. A treat in music and laughter is promised for everyone in “I lake It That May,” Universal’s newest and gayest comedy-drama, which is also showing at the Majestic Theatre. There have been musicals and there have been comeries, but this is a picture that combines both with a tasty, tangy flavour that guarantees to keep one’s spirits up. Beautiful girls, lilting melodies, composed by Conrad, Mitchell, and Gottler, dashing caballcros of the night, amd Prj or as a salesman. Glamorous Gloria Stuart and the wise-cracking Roger Pryor are featured in this scintillating tale.

‘ ‘ Girl Without a Room' ’ The gay atmosphere of Montmartre is admirably captured in “Girl Without a Room,” the picture on the programme to be presented at tne Majestic Theatre to-morrow. The film gives an amusing and delightful insight into the lives led by the artist folk of the Latin quarter of Paris. Most of the action takes place in an apartment house and a Paris cafe. Charlie Ruggles gives a splendid performance as a peculiar artist who paints what he feels and not what he sees, with the result that one of his pupils finally wins a contest with a painting, “The Wheel of Life,” hung upside-down. Marguerite Churchill and Charles Farrell support Charlie Ruggles. Also in the cast are four Russian actors, who take the parts of Trotsky, Walksky, Gallopsky and Bitsky. One of these gentlemen has a daughter, a particularly objectionable siren, portrayed by Grace Bradley. Gregory Ratoff is good as the “general,” while Walter Woolf gives a convincing portrayal of a Broadway actor who feigns drunkenness so that Kay can return to her artist. With its tuneful music, rich comedy and witty dialogue, the film makes splendid entertainment.