CURRENT FILMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 113, 25 February 1950, Page 2

CURRENT FILMS

ST. JAMES THEATRE Reuniting Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, “The Barkleys of Broadway” is the week-end attraction at the St. James Theatre. The story casts them as Josh and Dinah, the Barkleys of the title, and a couple whose married life is as successful as their teaming on the Broadway musical-comedy stage, despite the fact that it vacillates between stormy quarrels and impulsive kisses. It is only when Dinah meets a romantic foreign playwright who encourages her to believe that she is wasting her time in musicals and instead should be modelling her career on that ofSarah Bernhardt that q rift occurs in what had been a happy-go-lucky martial set-up. The undaunted Josh, however, is not without his own resources and before the picture’s gala climax he has convinced his erring wife that her place is not only beside her husband but in the realm of musical comedy rather than the so-called higher arts. Among the musical items in the firm are: “Swing Trot,” “Bouncin’ the Blues,” “My One and Only Highland Fling,” “Manhattan Downbeat,” “They Can’t Take That Away from Me,” “You’d Be So Hard to Replace,” “Shoes With Wings On,” “Week-end in the Country,” Khacha-. turian’s “Sabre Dance” and Tschaikowsky’s “B Flat Minor Concerto.”