MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 59, 11 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. Romance and humour are interwoven with the sensationalism with which the picture abounds, many of the flying feats having to be seen to be believed. “Three Smart Girls.” Charles Winninger, the corpulent comedian of Universal’s "Show Boat,” is one of the prominent stars of the latest picture released by the New Universal and coming to the Majestic Theatre to-morrow. In "Three Smart Girls” Winninger plays as Judson Craig, father of three very clever girls. A divorced New York banker, Winninger is in love with a gold-dig-ging lady by the Name of Precious (Binnie Barnes). She and her mercenary mother (played by Alice Brady, the nit-wit Mrs. Bullock of that comedy-scream “My Man Godfrey") are planning to lure their unsuspecting victim into a marriage and thus relieve him of his not inconsiderable fortune. But they took no account of the wiles of Craig’s three daughters, who are in Switzerland when they hear of their father's planned re-marriage. “Action front” is the motto of the girls. Borrowing their fare from their nurse, they sail for New York, to arrive at the crucial moment. Their combined efforts straighten out their father's romance,' and also the two elder girls find teammates as a result of their crusade. The surprise of this picture is the youngest girl, Penny, played by a new star, Deanna Durbin. Only fourteen years old, this girl’s mature lyric soprano voice has amazed musical experts in America. Her voice is heard to great advantage in operatic and popular numbers in "Three Smart Girls.” The titles of two of her songs are "My Heart is Singing" and “Someone to Care for Me.”