MUSIC AND MIRTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 14

MUSIC AND MIRTH

MAJESTIC'S MAMMOTH HIT I ‘‘GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935” ’ “Gold Diggers of 1935,” First National s latest mammoth musical spec- ■ I taele, opens at the Majestic Theatre to-day and to-night. The picture is said to hold more unique and musical numbers, greater song hits, and more hilarious fun than any other musical film produced by this company. There • is a piny within the play, a wealthy widow producing a milk fund *hovv at a swangy summer hotel. Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart have the lomanti-c leads. with Frank McHugh and Dorothy Dare in a senii-comic love affair and Glenda Farrell taking an eccentric millionaire over the jumps. Alice Brady has the role of the rich widow who is bilked of a considerable fortune by a theatrical producer, a part, played by Adolphe Metijou, Joseph Cavvthorn, in the role of a scejiic and

costume artist, and the hotel manager, Grant Mitchell. The widow, which is the funniest role ever essayed by Alice Brady, has two children. She is trying to marry off her daughter, Gloria Stuart, to Hugh Herbert, also a millionaire, but who is more interested in wuting articles on snuff than on love. Her son, Frank YlcHugh, four times married and divoiVe<l, falls for the hotel hostess, and the daughter falls in love with the room clerk in the person of Dick Powell. In “The Werewolf of London,” coming to the Majestic Theatre next Wednesday, Henry Hull again has the opportunity of bringing to the screen another marvellous cliarae l erisation that will surpass his “ k'iagwitch” of “Great Expectations.” The role of Dr. Glendon, played by Hull, involves a weird make up. Dr. Glendon is one of England’s most noted hotticultwrists. Glendon wishes to add another flower lo his collation, a moon flower, which grows only in the mountains of Thibet, but, while he is there he is bitten by the fabled werewolf. After his return to England, at the lull of the moon, he begins to turn into a wolf. The make-up required from three to five hours to put. on, the time dependent on the actor’s state of transition in his change from a man to a wolf. When Hull is supposedly going through these changes, his face is covered with hair, his ears are becoming pointed, and hair is even growing on the palms of his hands. This marvellous make up was created by Jack Pierce, the studio make-up man, who also made up Karloff for “Frankenstein.’’ Sprightlv Yomedy is to be furnished at the Majearic Theatre next. Saturday when Robert Young and Evelyn Venable head a tine cast in “Vagabond Lady.” This bright story of the blacksheep son of a dignified and wealthy familv who comes home from a world cruise in time to take a hand in the development of his pompuous brother’s romance with a beautiful girl is lively from the first moment. The comedy is incessant, and when it is nut being furnished bv the two principals it is entrusted to such capable actors as I’.eron I'hurchill. Reginald Denny, and Frank Graven, the last named giving a remarkable performance as the drunken „ho was an old school fr.end of the head of a great department store. This is undoubted!v a picture which will win Robert Young more admirers than he lias ever had.