WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 202, 11 September 1937, Page 9

WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE

"STAGE STRUCK" TO-NIGHT. Gay and sprightly with laughter and song, "Stage Struck," the latest Firat National's mammoth musical comedy spectacle, opens at the Waipawa JKegent Theatre to-night. In story and ckaracterisation, in sparkling dialogue, lilting musio and prodigious dance numbers, in lavishness of production and setting, ths pictnre is a worthy addition to First National's long list of musical comedy hits. In addition to its rollicking humour, it ofliers an interesting romance, with thrills and dynamie drama, and plenty of catchy music. It is enacted by a east of real stars, ificluding Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugk, Jeanne Madden, the Yaeht Club Boys, a score of other principals and hundreds of extras. There are three spectacular dance numbers with more than a hundred of Hollywood'e most beautiful chorus girls in eaeh and a speeialty numbef set in a replica of tho New York Aquarium, where Powell and Miss Madden warble their love songs witb the senls and fishes and other sea folk as eager listenera. The songs sung by these two film playera were written specially for the production by the famous lyrical team of E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen. Two other catchy airs are rendered by the Yaclit Cluh Boys, who wrote their own music and lyricv.