MAJESTIC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 9

MAJESTIC

• BLOSSOM TIME’’ A FAVOURITE. “Blossom 'Time.” which easts Richard Tauber in his best role so far. will make a happy appeal to Wanganui audiences. It was shown to a capacity house at the Majestic on Sat urday night and last night, heading a programme which will have a wide interest, particularly as it includes an impressive record of the funeral of the late Archbishop Redwood, in Wei ling-ton. The solemn scenes attending the burial of this world-famed church leader have been featured in the gazette and bear striking testimony to one who served New Zealand well and now reposes peacefully in the rugged hills of Karori. “Blossom Time deals with the age-old problem when love strikes a union between two hearts of different station. “Blossom Time” is the time when young hearts love and the title foreshadows the fall, when petals droop, flutter to earth and die. It is a pretty theme, sad in some respects, but so very, very human that it appeals. Cast as Franz Schubert, Richard Tauber sings delightfully. John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist has adapted from the life of the famous Schubert for the screen, and many of the wellknown compositions from that able master afford Richard Tauber ample scope for his glorious voice. A Vienna with its Arch Duchess, who. so the public believe, is a woman without heart or soul for anything above dancing and is a martinet of the first water; a Vienna with a dashing young soldier count: a Vienna with a Franz Schubert, tucked away in a little garret of a place, strumming on his piano and wondering how long it. will be before the world recognises his genius; a Vienna with Vicki Wimpassinger, in the “Blossom ’rime” of life; a Vienna with a sad. old antique dealer, who once was a music teacher to a duchess and who still loved that love of his youth; a Vienna with its brilliant court, where the duchess was supreme; a Vienna with a great concert hall where Schubert makes his name.—what a happy setting round which to weave a love story, punctuated with the music Schubert gave the world. His famous serenade. “Das Wandern,” “The Fisher Maiden.” “The Heath Rose,” “Impatience”—these are some of the songs adapted for “Blossom L'iinr.” It is a picture which reveals the dignity, the charm. Ihe sadness, the flashes of humour of that Vienna of

romantic name. On the one haul is the duchess who killed love for duty. On the other is the bright, loveable Vicki, who knows how overwhelming is the romance of love, but .s innocent of how hard is the stern call of duty and the making or breaking of a career. A novel scheme, which decs not pan out quite according to plan, is arranged to patch up the loves of two young hearts and the ending leaves the audience divided between the beauty of a happy weddi ig and the sadness in Franz Schubert’s heart. Another feature in the gazette will please a great many. It is a depiction of the recent Scout .tamooree at Melbourne and it was refreshing to hear the audiences applaud he marchpast of the New Zealand contingent. The Dominion’s representation marched infinitely better than any other section and made a striking display. A cleverly-arranged coloured cartoon is included in the programme. It is centred on the deed of a brave tin soldier.