WAIPAWA THEATRE "Flirtation Walk"
Dick Powell and Rxxby Keeler, the nation's most popular screen lovers, and Pat O'Brien head an all-star cast in "Flirtation Walk," showing at Waipawa on Saturday and Monday. Tlxe cast includes, in addition to a score of Hollywood's best actors, the entire cadet corps of the United States Military Academy at West Point, a portion o-f the Pacific fleet, and a detaclxment of the regular army at Honolulu. "Flirtation Walk" is said to be an eutirely new departure in musical films. Far from being a hodge pcdge of jokes and gags around which to Jhang some songs and introduce dance number 8, the startling sensational spectacles which distmguisb "Flirtation Walk" are incidontal to, and a deiinite part of the plot itself. The first big specialty is the Hawaiin Lov© Feast in which sixty beautiiul native girls clad in paim leaves, prescsut folk dances. These magic dances are now on tlie screen for the first time and include their most sacred love dance, the Luau, the HulaKui and Piulu. Dick Powell sings his Hawaiian songs written by Sol Hoopii, descendeut of Hawaiian royalty, aua to the accompaniinent of Hoopii's famous orchestra. For these scenes Firsfc National constructed the biggest ex-' terior sets they have ever attempted
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 48, 12 March 1937, Page 3
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