WAIPAWA REGENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 11

WAIPAWA REGENT

Dancing Pirate" To-morrow Wide acclaim lias been aroused by the brilliant terpsichorean ensembles in Pioneer Pictures' new full-colour technicoJour romantic eomedy, "Dancinf, pirate," showing at the Waipawa liegent to-morrow- afternoon and evening. The numbers were created and directed by Russell Lewis. "We strove for refreshing novelty," declares Lewis, "something other than sparsely clad beauties inarching up aud down modernistio objects, soniething other than mere photographic effects. The plot of the production, laid in early Spanish California, gave us our cue. The Spanjsh dances of those days were both thrilling and beautil'ul. It occurred to us that if we presented them in ensemble form we should achieve a poem of beautiful grace and motion. h'or this purpose we had to recruib 40 talented dancing (artists, most oi' whom are famous as solo and concert performers. The creations seen upon the screen are the resuit of eight weeks of rehearsals, months of research, and painstaking study of camera augles." A gay, romantic and venturesome eomedy, ' "Dancing Pirate" is the tale of a Boston dancing master who, shanghaied aboard a merchant sliip and later, captured by Pirates, finds himsdelf in old Spanish California condenmed to die as a buccancer. His death postponed s0 that lie may teaoh the Alcalde's daughter to waltz, he wins his way to love by conqnering an entire army of marauding soldiers. Charles Collins has the title role cofeatured with Prank IMorgan and Ktofand Jack LaRue albo have principaJf. roles, ]