WAIPAWA THEATRE
'Tolleen" To-morrow That inimitabla team of screen lovers, Dick Powell, with .tuneful songs on his iips, and Ruby Keeler with her rhythmio daneing, together with Joan Blondell and Jack Oakie, head the cast of Warner Bros. ' . latest spectacular musical comedy, ''Colleen,'' ' which comes to the Begent Theatre on Wednesday. Tn addition to ,the four stars, the cast, which is one of the most notable ever assembled for a production of this type, includes Hugh. Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Paul Draper, Marie Wilson, and a seore of otber famous names besides two hundred beautiful chorus girls and dancing youfhs. There are two big spectacular specialty numbers, created and staged by Bobby Connolly, formerly danee director for the Ziegfeld Follies and other Sew York shows. Miss Keeler nas the role of the secretary, and introduces some remarkable tap dancing, hoth by herself and with that wizard of the stage Paul Draper. Jack Oakie and Joan Blondell portray a pair of gold diggers, out for all the loot they can get out of the eccentric millionaire, a role played by Herbert. His wife, a hysterical society woman, constantly upset by her husband's philanderings, is portrayed by Louise Fazenda. Draper, the famous interpretativo dancer of Broadway, makes his film bow in this picture. He has been the rage of New York, and in this picture is said to do some of his finest lyrie dancing.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 3
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