MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 7 June 1938, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“DOUBLE WEDDING.” Il was left for the inimitable Wil>liam Powell and his charming coli league of the screen, Myrna Loy, to , immortalise the trailer in celluloid. I This is the combination which co-stars I for the seventh time in “Double Wedding ’ which is being screened at the Majestic Theatre. The picture is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adaptation of : Ferenc Molnar’s international stage hit, “Great Love.” And again, as may be expected, the screen adds to the charm of the original. No more - laugh-provoking picture has been on a | Wellington screen for years. Powell i‘T nd , 'Y liss Loy were delightful in Libelled Lady.” “After the Thin -tan, and others, but their comliina---nn °u, ta !, ents has reach ed Us peak in . Double Wedding.” Thev have the [support of an unusually able cast including Florence Rice and John Beal as the principals in the first wedding Jessie Ralph Edgar Kennedy, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Barnett Parker Katharine Alexander, and Priscilla Lawson. It is a hand-picked cast. Richard Thorpe, the director, proves his versatility, for it was he who tlle stark picture, “Night ImoT Fa - '” The protiucer was Joslph Manziewicz, one of Hollywood’s dnceF a T eXO !; UtiVeS ’ WhO earlicr Pr°- ■ duced J. ury, “ The Gorgeous Hussy,” and Love on the Run.’’ Cowell an- | pears as a penniless artist who lives in a trailer. Arriving in the city he | encounters a lovely modiste, manager i° f -,T fashlona ble shop, and falls in love with her. Far from being in love with I him, She agrees to pose, and that . marks the end of her resistance The fellow is irresistible. But in the interim there are some of the most humorous sequences that have vet come to the films.