WAIPAWA REGENT
"Dancing Pirate" To-night Wide acclaim kas been aroused by the brilliant terpsichorean ensembles in Pioneer Pictures' new full-cblour technicolour romantio eomedy, "Danciug 'Pirate,'1 showing a t the Waipawa Eegenfc this evening The numbers- were created and directed by Russell Lfewis. "We strove for refreshing novelty," deeiares. Lewis, "something other than sparsel^ dad beauties marchmg up and 'down modernistic objeots, son.'.ethingi other than mere photographic effeets-. The plot of the production, laid in oarly Spanish California, gave us our eue. The Spanish dances of those aays were botli thrilling and be'autitu' It occui'"red to us that if we, presy-nted them in ensemble fovm we shoul.; achieve a poem of bcautilul grace ard motion. For this .purpose we had to recruit 40 talented daucing artists, most of whom ai'e l'arnous as solo and concert performers. The creations seen upon the sereen are the result oi eight weelcs of rehearsals, months of research. and painstaking study of camer» angles/'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 125, 12 June 1937, Page 12
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