WAIPAWA REGENT
"Song of Freedom," Saturday and Monday All the world knows and loves Paul Bobeson's splendid voice, particularly as it is lieard in such songs as "OI ' Man Biver," Naw, in bis latest film film production, "Song of Freedom," which is to be screened here to-mor-row and Monday, he will be heard in no lesg than four new, speeiallv written numbers. With mnsic bv Eric Ansell and lyrics by Henrik Ege', these are the songs now being featured by orhcestras and singers all over the world. Tb,eir tilles are: "Song 0f Freedom," "Stepping Stones, " "Lonely Boad," and "Sleepv Biver," all of tiiem being featured prominently in this remarkable film production, the scenes of which are set in Africa and Britain. Not only is tlie pieture a festival of lcvely nielody, but it tells a thrilling an 1 poignant story of a negro who lengs to rctuvn to his own eountrv, realising his ambition th rough the
« - - - ■ means of his (voice. ?upporting the great actor-singer are Elisabeth Weleh, Ps.me Perey, George Mozart, Joan Fred Ernney, and Jeiiny Doan, as well as a east o-f hundreds of black and white piayers. •'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 159, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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