"WELCOME DANGER," LAST SHOWING —MAJESTIC.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 58, 9 April 1930, Page 2

"WELCOME DANGER," LAST SHOWING —MAJESTIC.

To-night will b© the last occasion on which patrons of the Majestic Theatre will have the opportunity of hearing Harold Lloyd in "Welcome Danger," hailed as one of the funniest pictures ever sci'eened. Excellent supports complete the programme. DOUBLE STAR BILL AT MAJESTIC THURSDAY. There is nothing more entertaining than well-performed, mystifying drama, and there is no better example of this rare sort of enteiiainment than "The Perfect Crime," the latest RKO production, which conimences at the popular Majestic Tlieatre on Thursday. In pictures of this type the star must become involved in some situation whereby he huilds susgense through the entira picture, and live Brook, as Dr. Benson, famous criminologist, does this most effectively. It is one of tbe most gripping mystery di-amas of the current cinema season, being an adaptation of Israel Zangwill's popular novel, "The_ Big Bow Mystery." The production is filled with unusual situations, and the superb handling of the complicated story is a feather in the directorial cap of Bert Glennon. There are no big mob scenes, gi-eat lapses of time or spectacular settmgs. lnstead, there are ten seasoned and carefully cast players who become immersed in an amazing network of circumstantial evidence, leading up to a most di-ama-tie ending and the solution of "The Perfect Crime." What critics declare to be the most striking and dramatic presentation of the gigantic "rum running" industry that the screen has yet offered is in "Bloekade," a story of liquor trafficking on the high seas which Direetor George B. Seitz has nxade for RKO, with dashing Anna Q. Nilsson in the featured role. Combining a high standard of dramatic artistry in its more intimate passages with the clash of battle of armed ships on the liigh seas, wliere desperate outlaws war against the Government forces for the loot that comes of bootlegging and brigandage, the picture has wdn qmck acclaim throughout the country. Portraying a fearless and adventurous young woman who, in cotiimand of a speedy ship, pursues and gives battle to an armed rum tunner off the Florida coast, Miss Nii sson gives a memorable performance. Plan at the Bristol, theatre 'phone 9708.