MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“PARIS HONEYMOON” Love among the roses—the roses which provide the mythical kingdom of “Pushtainick” with its chief bid to fame—keynotes Paramount’s new Bing Crosby comedy, "Paris Honeymoon,” screening to-day at the Majestic Theatre. Fairest flower of all in “Pushtainick” is lovely Franciska Gaal —and Bing suddenly finds it out. But he can’t do anything about it because he's betrothed to Shirley Ross, a gay divorcee. And then there's Akim Tamiroff, who also mants to marry Franciska. But love, as it generally does —finds a way, to the accompaniment of some of the highest comedy seen on the screen this season, and four new hit tunes —“You're a Sweet Little Headache,” "I Have Eyes,” “The Funny Old Hills” and "JoobAlai,” all delivered in expert and workmanlike fashion by the great Bing himself. “The Citadel.” “The Citadel,” dramatically powerful story of a young doctor who barters his ideas for world riches, is to commence on Friday at the Majestic Theatre. Superb portrayals are given by Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell in the principal roles. A dramatic love story is unfolded in the account of the young surgeon who struggles among the miners and marries a humtile school mistress. There is agonising suspense when he descends into a mine that has collapsed, to amputate the arm of a man trapped beneath a fallen timber. There is drama when he deliberately dynamites a sewer that has been spreading disease but wljich authorities refuse to move. The moving story has become even more dramatic on the screen, without an alteration, but because of the added power of visible action.