STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 73, 13 April 1937, Page 11

STATE THEATRE

RETURNOP "TOP HAT" Blending romance with gay comedy, "Top Hat" tells a light, thoroughly incriguing and at all times plausible itory, with never a lag or a dull moment. It commences a return sea-son at the Stato Theatre to-morrow. Wheu it comes to romancing, there 's nothing couventional about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Top Hat." In fact, there 's nothing conventional about the entire picture, which features the iirst complete screen musical score ever written by Irving Berlin. From the opening scene to the final fadeout it 's a series of romantic, melodic, and hilarious surprises. Astaire dances two versions of "No Strings," a novelty tap dance; he does a solo specialty, "Top Hat," with a chorus of swagger young men; he sings "Cheek to Cheek" and dances it with Ginger Rogers; he sings "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" and dances it with Miss Rogers; and the two dance the big number, the "Piceolino" with a chorus of sixty. Splendid support is accorded by a confedy cast which has seldom been matchpd on stage or screen. It Includes Helen Broderick, brilliant comedienne from the stage, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, and EtIc Blore. "Charlie Chan at the Opera" screena finally to-night at tho State.