MAJESTIC THEATRE
“SAN FRANCISCO.’’ "San Francisco,” which commences at the Majestic Theatre to-day, is a ’ triumph for American screen production. Firstly, .the picture contains an all-star cast with such noted players las Clark Gable. Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Holt, and Spencer Tracy; ’secondly, it has a vigorous theme, in . which drama, tragedy, music and ' humour are nicely interwoven, and ' last but not least it. depicts in graphic and realistic manner the most disastrous earthquake in the history of civilised America. The locale of the film is the Barbary Coast in the year 1905-6. Gable portrays a gambler and saloon keeper of ’Frisco at the height of that city’s most glamorous period. Miss MacDonald is a.small-town minister’s daughter who seeks adventure jin the music halls of the Golden Gate | city and rises to fame. Woven into I the plot is an absorbing love story for Gable and the singer. Miss Mac Don aid’s glorious voice is given full scope in a number of favourite songs. The [supporting programme is particularly good, mainly because it introduces a new type of film, ‘Audioscopiks.” The film is viewed through red and green glasses, which produce a stereoscopic effect. For instance, a ball thrown by a player seems to fall into the lap of everyone in the theatre and one aljmost feels drenched when a soda j syphon is discharged. It is a screen ! novelty which should prove popular.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 9
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