WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 3

WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

"Show Boat" To-night The musie of "Show Boat," cornposed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein H., has gained such popularity that all the original numbers were retained in Universal's 1936 screen version of the Edna Ferber classic, which comes to the -Waipukurau Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday. The hit numbers of the play include "Make Believe" and "Why Do I Love You?" duets rendered by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Helen Morgan does two numbers that she has made famous, "Bill" and "Can't Help Lovin' That Man. " Other songs are "Old Fashioned Wife," "Cotton Blossom," "After the Ball," by Charles K. Harris, and "Goodbye, My Lady Love," by Joseph Howard. Paul Robeson, the world-renowned baritone, sings "Old Man Eiver" and a new offering, " Ah Still Suits Me." A new duet number, "I Have the Room Abovo Her," is presented by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones. Miss Dunne also has a sprightly tune called 4 ' Gallivantin ' Around." One of the speeial features of the production is a chorus of 200 voices chat weave a spell with unusual rhythmic tone patterns. 'Phone 282 for reserves. Easter Thursday. "Last of the Pagans," the romance of South Seas native life, filmed in the five oionths expedtion of Richard Thorpe, director, and his M.G.M. expedition, comes to the Waipukurau Theatre on Easter Thursday. It is played' amid scenes so beautiful that they are literally breath-taking, and with such thriils as we saw in "Trader Horn." On the same programme will be shown Laurel and Hardy in "Fixer Uppers."