MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 200, 27 August 1935, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

• RECKLESS” SCREENING. A Titvm satuxeal r.nd entertaining picture which combines the best features of several of the more or Jess standardised types, is “Reckless,” showing finally to-night at the Majestic Theatre. The musical and dancing side of the picture reveals Jean Harlow in a new and refreshingly vital role. No fewer than four new song numbers, several of which are sung by Jean Harlow herself with full orchestral and ballet accompaniment, are introduced. They are “Reckless,” the theme song, “Hi Diddle Dee Dum.” “Eveiything’s Been Done Before.” and :‘Hear What* My Heart is Saying.” The famous Oscar Kammerstein and Jerome Kern were responsible for the raueisal side of the film. Opposite Miss Harlow, Wuaam Powell and Franchot Ton? share the honours. A most human char<et?risation is that of Granny, by May Robson. The supports, which are of the usual excellent quality, include newsreels and a very clever colour cartoon. “Jane Eyre” Tomorrow. Based on Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel, the picture 4 ‘Jane Eyre.” coming to-morrow to the Majestic Theatre, reflects the beauty of the great work It carries with it an atmospLer.j of those mid-Victorian times which are so hard to recapture on the modern screen. The story is necessarily summarised in its screen form, but it loses -.is little as possible in the process. Playing the title role, Virginia Bruce adds the charm of her personality to the picture. She is thoroughly at home in her part as the demure, righteous, yet selfreliant Jane, who in her capacity as governess to the precocious child, played by Eileen Pringle, is resident at the mansion of the Roeheaters. As Edward, the child’s guardian, and the man ■with whom Jane falls in love, Colin Clive is to the life the mysterious country gentleman. Deserving to be ranked high on the list of talented child performers, Eileen Pringle is a compara-

tively new arrival on the screen. Others in the cast who help to make the picture the success it is are Beryl Mercer, as the cheerful, sympathetic old housekeeper, and David Torrance, as the forbidding manager of the orphanage in which Jane spends ten years of her life.