WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 3

WAIPAWA REGENT THEATRE

"STAGE STRUCK" TO-NIGHT. Gay and sprightly with laughter and song, "Stage Struck," the latest First National's manimotli musical comedy spectacle, opens at the Waipawa itegent Theatre to-niglit. In story and characterisation, in sparkling dialogue, lilting musio and prodigious dance" numbers, in lavishness of production and setting, ths picture is a worthy addition to First National's long liet of musical comedy hits. In addition to its rollieking humour, it offers an interesting romance, with thrills and dynamic drama, and plenty of catchy music. It is enacted by a cast of real stars, y»cluding Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, J Warren William, Frauk McHugh, Jeanne Madden, the Yacht Club Boys, a score of other priucipals and hundreds of extras. There are three spectacular dance numbers with more than a hundred of Hollywood'e most beautiful chorus girls in each and a specialty number set in a repliea of the New York Aquarium, where Powell and Miss Madden warble their love songs with the seals and fishes and other sea folk as eager listenens. The songs sung by these two film players were written specially for the production by the famous lyrical team of E. ¥. Harburg and Hamld Arlen. Two other catchy airs are rendered by the Yacht Club Boys, who wrote their own music and lyrics.