MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 110, 12 May 1938, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

•'NOBODY’S BABY" Patsy Kelly and Lyda Robert! introduced as a starring fun team in “Nobody’s Baby,” the Hal RoachM.G.M. feature comedy screening at the Majestic Theatre to-day, offer a unique contrast in personalities. Patsy's brand of humour is familiar to countless theatregoers, luit her screen friendship with the glamorous, foreign Lyda Robert! is said to offer a new slant to Kelly. Harum-scarum Patsy assumes the guardianship of Lyda, who thinks a “guardian” is lively because it's always full of fresh “wegetablcs” and flowers. Ab student nurses the two girls’ social life is centred around Lieutenant-Detective Emery Littleworth (Lynne Overman) and “Scoops” Hanford (Robert Armstrong), who get them involved in a night club mystery of the secretly married Rosina Lawrence and Don Alvarado, a sensational dance team. Rosina departs from her husband in anger because he refuses to announce their marriage, fearing the loss of public adulation. Decided complications ensue which are solved only when the scene has shifted from a maternity hospital to the beautiful night club. “Ebb Tide” “Ebb'‘Tide,” the first sea picture ever filmed in technicolour, is to commence screening to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre. Taken from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osborne, the film is played by Qscai Homolka, noted Viennese star, Frances Farmer, Ray Mi I land, Lloyd Nolan and Barry Fitzgerald. The story has to do with a derelict, Milland, who falls in love with the daughter of a dead sea captain (Miss Farmer) Oil an ill-fated voyage in the South Pacific. Homolka, a captain on the beach because of his bad record of drinking, is down and out, beachcombing with Milland and his companion, Fitzgerald, a conniping Cockney. Homolka contracts to take a trading ship to Australia, taking his companions with him. The ship turns out to be loaded with champagne, and carries one passenger, Miss Farmer. Over the protest of Milland, Homolka and Fitzgerald change the course of the ship, planning to steal it and sell the cargo. Homolka takes to drink again, and in a wild storm the ship is blown off its course. There are many gripping events before the unusual climax.