WAIPAWA REGENT
•'THE GREAT ZIEGFELD" TO-NIGHT. "The Great .Ziegfeld" Metro-Gold-Wyn-Mayer's giant pieture, showing at Waipawa Regent to-night and Monday, can be t described in three words— World 's Greatest Entertainment. Challenging all competition, "The Great Ziegfeld" has more first-rate entertainment values crowded within its sixteen reels than any other pieture labelled "musical" or otherwise. It has a triple-star treat — William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainor— to tell a story suggested by the career of Florenz Ziegfeld, with Powell as Ziegfeld, Miss Loy as Billie Burke and Miss Rainer as Anna Held. The entertainment value beeomes a Parade of Ziegfeld, f.or the cast also features such world-famous entertainers as Fanny Brice, the ruling American comedienne; Harriet Hootor, whom Ziegfeld' acclaimed the Pavlova of America; and Ray "Rubber Legs" Bolger, Broadway dancing star. Also through the story march irnpersonations of such memorable characterp as Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, W. C. Fields, Bert Williams, Nat Wills, Lew Dowstader, Lee Shubert, Joseph Urban, Irving Berlin, Georgo White and Oharles Frohman. Owing to the unusual length of the big feature this evening 's screening will eonunence at 7.45.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 9
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184WAIPAWA REGENT Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 9
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