MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 98, 28 April 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“THE GHOST GOES WEST’’ Robert Donat makes a welcome reappearance to Wanganui audiences in “The Ghost Goes West,” to be screened to-day and to-night at the Majestic Theatre. As a scion of the noble Scottish House of Glourie, more interested in dallying with the lassies than in making war on the hated English. Even more hated than the English are the clan MacTaggart, whose insults to the Glouries the youthful hero fails to wipe out before his untimely demise in a gunpowder explosion. That was 200 years ago, and still the ghost of Murdoch Glourie haunts the dim corridors of Glourie Castle as a punishment for his failure to avenge the insult. The modern representative part of the clan is Donald Glourie (also played by Robert Donat), an impecunious Scot, who is forced to sell the castle to an American chain-store grocer. The castle is dismantled stone by stone and reerected in Florida, and the poor bewildered ghost is forced to follow. The ludicrous adventures of the ghostly Murdoch and his very much alive descendant, with the American’s attractive daughter (Jean Parker) complicating the plot, provide as hilariously entertaining a picture as has ever reached the screen. “If I Were King” One of the most picturesque and romantic fellows ever to strut across the pages of history, Francois Villon, forms the central figure in Frank Lloyd’s newest production, “If I Were King,” which is showing to-morrow at the Majestic Theatre. Ronald Colman, master of romantic parts, is seen as the great poet, vagabond, lover, statesman and soldier, the I people's hero who held all France in the palm of his hand for one unfor-1 gettable week and taught a royal ( princess how to love. Lloyd, whoso > “Cavalcade,” “Mutiny on the Bounty” I and “Wells Fargo” have been among the greatest triumphs of the screen. I selected a brilliant cast to support I Colman. It includes Basil Rathbone, i as the cynical and eccentric Louis XI of France, Frances Dee, as the lovely princess who made a national hero out of a vagabond poet, and Ellen Drew, as Villon’s tavern sweetheart.