WAIPAWA THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 3

WAIPAWA THEATRE

"CoIIeen" To-night That inimitable team of screen lovers, Dick Powell, with tuneful songs on his lips, and Euby Keeler with her rhythmio dan-eing,. together with Joan Blondell and Jack 'Oaki.e, head the cast of Warner Bros.' . latest spectaeular musical comedy, ' ' Coileen, ' ' which comes to the Eegent Theatre to-night. In addition to the four stars, the cast, which is one of the most uotable ever assembled for a production of this type, includes Hugh Herbert, Louise I'azenda, Paul Draper, Marie Wilson, and a seore of other famous names besides two hundred beautiful chorus girls and dancing youths. There are two big spectaeularspecialty numbers, created and etaged by Bobby Connolly, formerly dance director for the Ziegfeld Foilies and other Sew York shows. Miss Keeler aas the role of the secretary, and introduces some remarkable tap dancing, both 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 lyric dancing.