MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

Norma Shearer, always at her best in barbed comedy, has * a sparkling role which she plays to full advantage in “We Were Dancing," the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture which screens at the Majestic Theatre finally to-day. “H. M. Pulliam, Esq.” “H. M. Pulham, Esq," which as a novel topped the best-seller lists for many months, comes to the Majestic to-morrow with Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young and Ruth Hussey in the major roles. The screen has given even greater fluidity to the story of the young Bostonian aristocrat cast by destiny in a mould from which he cannot escape. After the World War he essays a career in New York, meets the woman who becomes the one great love of his life, then through circumstances returns to Boston to develop I into a creature of habit, content with the woman his family had destined him to marry. When, twenty years later, he seeks to recapture the ro-I mance of his youth, he finds that it is too late. Hedy Lamarr’s portrayal of Marvin Myles, the young advertising copy writer who scorns the placidity of a conservative Boston existence, is undoubtedly the finest role of her film career. Young is perfectly cast as Harry Pulham and Ruth Hussey, also, is an excellent choice for the role of the typically Bostonian, Kay Motford, who makes Pulham a good if unexciting wife.