REGENT PREVIEW
BATHING BEAUTY' The long-awaited film 'Bathing Beauty' has been booked by the management of the Regent Theatre to screen tomorrow,. Monday and Tuesday. Since its Auckland suc r news of it has spread far and wide and many patrons who were fortunate enough )to see it in a cifcfy theatre intend enjoying it again, 'Bathing Beauty' can be described as a 'musical spectacle.' As the name implies, its plcVt is framed to provide opportunity for featured swimming. An ideal lead for the picture has been chosen in lovely Esther Williams —• 100 metre free-style champion at l.> and who since then has taken the 300 metre medley Na r tional Championship and Pacific Coast Swimming Championship. In 1940 she was chosen to represent the United States, at the Olympic Games < to be held at Helsinki. These however were abandoned ow- ♦ 9 ing to the war. Also starred in the picture is Red Skelton perhaps one of the most versatile comedians on the screen. Xavier Cugat's orches'tra, and Harry James and his band supply plenty or melody. (One such number by Harry James is Jascha Heifctz' Hora StacciOo"; lie has established a record by being the first musician to play Heifctz' violin composition 011 a trumpet—nine hundred notes- in ninety seconds). 'Bathing Beauty' can be recommended .
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 30, Issue 9, 7 December 1945, Page 8
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