LAURIER THEATRE’S ATTRACTION

Evening Star, Issue 21753, 22 June 1934, Page 11

LAURIER THEATRE’S ATTRACTION

1 FLYING DOWN TO RIO ' In ‘ Flying Down to Rio,’ which will be shown at the Laurier Theatre, Port Chalmers, to-night and_ to-morrow, Gene Raymond takes his American jazz band to Rio de Janeiro to open a show in a new hotel. He falls in love with Delores Del Rio, daughter of -the hotel owner, and a rivalry develops between Raymond and Raoul Roulien, a situation complicated by the fact that Roulien has been engaged to Del Rio for years. . , When the “ heavies,” a’ syndicate of Greek gamblers, try to spoil the deal and ruin Dolores’s father by getting city officials to prohibit Gene’s show, that young man foils_ them all by taking his band and his twenty beauties aloft. In full view of thousands of awed Brizilians sing and dance on the wings of aeroplanes, adagio dancers hurl their fair partners from ono plane to another, and ballet dancers trip the light fantastic whille fluttering earthward in parachutes. The picture also marks the film debut of Fred Astiro in a stellar role. Astaire, idol of New York and London musical comedies, ane one of the best character comedians on the stage to-day, is paired with Ginger Rodgers in a humorous romance.

To give Port Chalmer’s residents a chance of seeing ‘ Romantic New Zea -land’ this picture will commence a season there on Monday. A- special screnning for school children will be held on the same day.