GREAT TECHNICOLOUR FEATURE MAJESTIC THEATRE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 164, 13 August 1929, Page 2

GREAT TECHNICOLOUR FEATURE MAJESTIC THEATRE.

lo-night is the last occasion on whicli the patrons of the JMajestie Theatre will have the oppoptunitj* of witnessing the great technicolour feature entitled "The Viking." "TALKIES," MAJESTIC THEAl'RE, WEDNESDAY NEXT. The Napier talkie season comniences at the popular Majestic Theatre on Wednesday nest. An excellent selection of tlie All Talkie short subjccts uavo been eliosen, iiu-iuding tlie lamous Euglish instrumentaiikt, tlie Squixe Octette, C.'lapham and Dwycr, a clever English coiuedy patttr act, a Fox Movietono News, all tlie latest world happenings in sound and talk. Georgo Bernard Sliaw in humorous and interesting specch, "Nap," a two-reel all talkie comedy packed with laughs. The picture is fcouncl s.vnchroniscd, and full of thrills "Suhmarine," a iemarkablv fine "Columbia" production, is the big featurc with Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier and Ilnlph Graves in the featured roles. The storv concerns Jack Dorgan Snd Boh Mason, petty officers in tlie Unitecl States Navy, who seclc adventnres in an Oriental port. The pair are engaged on a dredging job, and Jack, a diver, becomes entangled in ropes attachecl to a sunken craft, and is being drawn towards a mine about to explode. Bob, sensing his pal's dangea-, plunges overboard to almost certain death and rescues hira. Soon afterwards Boh is transferred to the submarine squadron, wliile Jack is sent to the naval base at Son Diego. Tn California he meets and fails in love with Bessie, a dance hall girl, ancl the pair are marricd. Domestic routine is not Bessie's idea of a good time, and she longs to return to the gay life. The day Bob's squadron reaches San Diego. Jack is sent up the Pacific to help salvage a sunken craft. Disappointed at not seeing his pnl, Bob seeks amusement in a dance hall. Here he meos Bessie, who is taking advantage of her husbancPs absence. It is a

ease of love at hrst sight. on his pare at least, and Bob, believing Bessie to be single, plays up to her, and a romance develops. Bob is at the pier to meet his. pal, and is surprised lo hear that he is married, and is horrorstricken when he learns who the wife is. While Bob is undecided wbat to do, Jack leaves to hand in Iiis report. Bessie throws herself into Bob's arras and tells him she loves him. The tliought of betvaying his pal sickens Bob, and as he is figliting Bessie off Jack entevs the room. It is hard for him to believe that Bob has playecl him false, but Bessie tells her husband that she gave him no encouragoment. Bob's submarine goes out to manoeuvres, is rammed by a cruiser, and sinks to the bottom at a deptli of almost 400 feet. No diver save Jack Dorgan can reach it, and he is not to be ifound. In liis room Jack sees his wife putting on a pair of garters of the style that Bob is in tlie habit of giving girls. Jack accuses Bessie of duplicity and foi'ces a confession from her. He then rushes to tlie naval base, is taken to the scene of the wreck in an aeroplane, reaches the sunken craft, and saves the crew. The faithless wife is cast adrift, and the friends become united onee more. The scenes showing the sinking of the submarine, and the sufferings of tlie men as they slowly snffocate, are remarkable, and make "Submarine" one of the finest films vet screened in Napier. The plan is rapidly fi'iling at tlie Bristol Piano Co., wliere seats shoulcl be reservecl. Theatre 'plione, 2708.