STATE THEATRE
RETURN OP "TOP HAT" Blending xomance With gay comedy, "Top Hat" tells a light, thofoaghiy intriguing and at all times plausible story, with never a lag or a dull moment. It is screening at a rettxrn seaaon at the State Theatre flow. When it comes to TOmanciug, thgfO's nothing conventional about Pred Astaire and Gixlger Rogers irt "Top Hat." In faet, there's nothing eonventional abotit the entirg picture, Which features the iirst complete sereefi inusiCal SCQfe ever written by Irving Berlin. Protu the opehifig scene to the final fadeOUt it's a sefiCs of romantic, melodic, and hilafious surpriSes. Astaire darices two versions qf ''No Strifigs,''' & novelty t&p dance; he does & SOlo specialty, ' ' Top Hat, ' ' With a chotus 6f Swagger young men; he sings "Cheek to Cheek" and dances it with Ginger Rogers; he sings "Isn't This a Day?" and dances it with Miss Rflgers; and the two daHce . the big number, the "Piecolino" with a chorus of sixty. Splendid support is accorded by a COmedy CUfet which has seldom been matched on stage or screen. It meiudes HOIea Broderick, brilliant comedienne from the stage, Edward EverBtt HoftOh, Erlk RhodOs, Ufid Eric Blore.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 74, 14 April 1937, Page 15
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