WAIPAWA THEATRE
"Flirtation Walk" JDick PoweJl and Ruby Keeler, the nation's most popular screen lovers, and Pat O'Brien head an all-star cast in "Flirtation Walk," showing at Waipawa fo-nigiit and Monday. The cast includes, in addition to a seore oi Hollywood's best actors, the entire eadet corps of tlie United States Military Academy at West Point, a portion of the Pacific fleet, and a dctachment of tlie regular army at Honolulu. "Flirtation Walk'' is said to be on entirely new departure in lnusicai films. Far from being a hodge pcdge of jokes and gags a;-ound w liicli to hang some songs and introduce dance nunibers, tlie startling sensational speetacles whicli distmguish "Flirtation Walk" are ineidental to, and a deiinite part of tlie plot itself. Tbe first big specialty i3 the Hawaiin Love Feast in whicli sixty beautiful native girls clad in paini leaves, present folk dances. Tliese magic dances are now on the screen for tlie iirst time and include their most sucred love dance, the Luaa, the HulaKui and Piulu. Dick Powell sings his j Hawaiiau songs writteij by So] Hoopii, I desceiident oi Hawaiian royalty, aua j to the accompaniment of Hoopii's famI ons orcliestra. For these scenes First I National constructed the biggest ex- * tcrior scts thcy have over attcnipted
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 49, 13 March 1937, Page 3
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