MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 58, 10 March 1937, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“THE FLYING HOSTESS” To be screened at the Majestic Theatre to-day and to-morrow only, “The Flying Hostess” is claimed to be the aviation sensation of the age. William Gargan, Judith Barrett and William Hall are featured players. The story gives an insight, and a very realistic one, too, into modern transport by air as now carried on across the mighty American continent, and it moves nearly as rapidly as the huge airliners which it across the scenes. Amongst the would-be air hostesses was a girl rejected because of her alleged lack of nerve. But having proved by a parachute jump that she had the requisite nerve, she was taken on. The climax is reached when the aeroplane upon which she is travelling as hostess is held up by bandits wTi’ist in flight. The pilot is put out of action, but the girl, the bandits having been overcome, takes control and, aided by telephonic communication with the ground station, manages to land the giant aeroplane and its passengers safely in spite of a thick rog. However, this is not achieved without having one of the landing wheels torn off by contact with telegraph wire, which makes the feat all the more wonderful. Romance and humour are interwoven wit hthe sensationalism with which the picture abounds, many of the flying feats having to be seen to be believed. “Three Smart Girls.” “Three Smart Girls,” commencing on Friday at the Majestic Theatre, Is

a delightful picture In every way, In its appealing story of three girls who are determined to end their mother’s unhappiness and to separate, by the greatest distance possible, their father and his gold-digging lady friend, in the extremely clever dialogue, and in the splendid cast, headed by Charles Winninger, of “Show Boat” memory, and brightened by Deanna Durbin, a new star, who, unlike quite a number of discoveries, will remain a star. Deanna Durbin is fourteen years of age, and gained her start because of her wonderful lyric soprano vorce. She has a charming, natural manner, and is altogether happy in her tlrst big film. Others in the cast are Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, John King and Ray Milland.