WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 61, 30 March 1937, Page 3

WAIPUKURAU THEATRE

Tolleen" To-night The mere announcement that Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler are teamed in a musical drama seems sufficient to ensure the popularity of the picture. • Those talented young people started together in "42nd Street" and made a hit. They made another in Flirtation Walk" and again in "Shipmates Forever." Consequently when it was announced that Warner Brofc. had a new musical, in whibh were not only Powell and Miss Keeler, but Jack Oakie and Joan Blondell,.Hugh Herbert and Louise Fazenda, togetber with the stage's greatest dancer, Paul Draper, were to be starred, the success of the picture wa's assured. They will be seen in "Colleen" at the Waipukurau^ Theatre to-night. Two mammoth and' spectacular nuinbers were created and slaged by Bobby Connolly with scores of beautiful chorus girls in each. One takes place on an oeean liner, speeially built for the picture, and the other in a modiste shop in which is prcsented a j gorgeous f ashton show. There are three songs, written for the production 1 by Harry Warren and A1 Dubin, ace ! team of song writers of Broadway and j Hollywood. Powell sings two of the songs^ in • his inimitable manner, oue | .by himself and one in which Miss >' Keeler gives a lyrical recitative. The \ other, a comedy number, feung by Jack Oakie and J oan Blondell, is entitled "Boulevardier from the Bronx."