AMUSEMENTS
MAJESTIC THEATRE MUSICAL COMEDY: “ROMANCE IN THE DARK.” AND “BACK DOOR TO HEAVEN.” Music, comedy and romance blend in Paramount's "Romance in the Dark,” now screening at the Majestic Theatre. Gladys Swarthout is seen in the role of a country ser-vant-girl who is turned into a bogus Persian princess by John Boles. His ruse works better than he expects—she captures his heart. When her first night's audience denounces her as an imposter, Boles steps in and turns her disgrace into a smashing success by means of his own singing. John Barrymore furnishes the high comedy of the piece. Others in the cast are Claire Dodd, Frit?. Feld, Curt Bois and Carlos de Valdez. “Romance in the Dark" is peppered with scintillating music, including selections from popular operas and three new musical “hits,” “To-night We Love,’’ “Bewitched By the Night.” and "Blue Dawn.” Wallace Ford, as a small town boy who asks just one chance ot life and never gets it, Patricia Ellis as the girl who loves him and tries to get him that chance, and Aline MacMahon as the school teacher who attempts to guide him to the right path, arc the central characters in the associate drama, Paramount’s “Back Door to Heaven." The programme opens with a new chapter of “Secrets of Treasure Island."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 1 November 1939, Page 5
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