MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“HOLIDAY” The title "Holiday” provides little clue to the nature of the first-rate picture heading the current programme at the Majestic Theatre. It is concerned more with the secret of personal happiness. Cary Grant plays the part of a rising young business man whose heart’s desire, strangely enough, is to earn enough money early in life to enable him to drop routine work and spend his time inquiring into the scheme of things. Having met and become engaged to a girl at a winter resort he calls at hex New York address to find that she is the daughter of a millionaire. Commercial success with money and yet more money is all that the millionaire aims at, and having been persuaded by his daughter to accept Ine prospective son-in-law he sets about arranging a career fox’ him. there are two members of the rich family who have dreamt of other things than the money god. They are the fiancees younger brother and her sister Linda (Katharine Hepburn). In the supporting programme “Golf Magic’ is an outstanding and topical feature. “Community Sing" is another Line “short” and “Snow Time” is a coloured rhapsody well up to the high standard of Majestic supports. Lhc latest air-mail news from London and abroad adds to the enjoyment of patrons. “Young Dr. Kildare.” The drama that exists behind the scenes in a great hospital is re-en-acted with rare power in ’Young Dr Kildare,” which is showing next Friday at the Majestic Theatre. Lew Ayres is excellent in the title role, with a uniformly fine cast, featuring Lionel Barrymore, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, and Jo Ann Sayers. The story presents a realistic view of life inside the walls of a metropolitan hospital to-day. Ayres, as an interne, encounters his first difficulty when he protects a fellow-doctor who has failed to save the life of an influential politician. Again he becomes involved in trouble when he opposes the diagnosis of a prominent psychiatrist who declares a girl patient to be a mental case. For this Kildare is dismissed. Eventually young Dr. Kildare proves himself and is reinstated, opening the way to a career and marriage;