MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 280, 26 November 1936, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“THREE WISE GUYS.” Bright humour is offered in “Three Wise Guys,” which is showing to-day at the Majestic Theatre. The story is not unfamiliar, Robert Young being the “playboy” son of a rich man and i finding himself turned out to fend for himself with no working experience. It all begins in a train, but how is Robert to know that the beautiful form draped in a faint just belongs to an adventuress seeking the money he hasn’t earned? Unfortunately, the languishing lady is a little too human and falls in love with Robert, who, naturally enough, was on the spot when the . fainting started. Betty Furness makes i an admirable partner for Robert , Young. Heading an excellen -upporting programme is a film oi Tne sensa- , tional two and a-half rounds of the ■ Louis-Sharkey light, in which the Detroit negro smashes his way back to prominence. “San Francisco.” “San Francisco,” the M-G-M production commencing to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre, has drama, love interest, comedy and spectacle. Clark Gable has the rough and tough type of role in which his screen public likes him best. Jeanette MacDonald has the idea! part to give her opportunity to sing, and when she sings there is a reason for her singing, for her songs are a part of the plot. The story is that of the Barbary Coast of thirty years ago, opening on New Year's Eve, 1906. and continuing through one of the most disastrous dramas of the century, the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Gable is the boss of one of the most ppoular resorts on the Barbary Coast. Miss MacDonald is the small-town girl who wanders into his dance hall, filled with ambition to become a great singer. Perhaps the : greatest surprise of the picture, however, is the strikingly different portrayal of Spencer Tracy, who gives a sincere and unforgetable portrait of ithe priest, Father Mullin.