AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODVS PICTURES.

1 ‘playing; around. v $

Hollywood’s long-standing welcome to all nationalities and races is still holding good—even in the rank of its chorus girls. An all-coloured chorus is. the latest to be signed by the First National and Vitaphone StudfOs|%nd the dusky stepper t s.. appear in|.‘|t Jlgying lAround,” Alice White’s picture at the Princess Theatre to-night (Saturday).' They were gathered by Max Scheckj. who staged the dance numbers for the him, from night clubs and from Central Avenue, tlie /Harlem of Los Angeles. The JdanceiTi range in.colour from “high yaller” to charcoal black. Caroline Snowden, popular dancer from the Cotton Club Revue in Los Angeles, heads the chorus. During the past few months chorus girls from many countries have sung and danced on the sound stages at the cans: were*-, -employed for. “The Great Divide,” French girl/s for “Paris” and Japanese for “No, No, Nanette.” English,. Spanish and Russian dancers have also been temporarily organised into separate choruses. “Playing Around,” although having many cal sequences with four popular sons hits, is an absorbing drama about a girl who loses heart to a gangster. f Chester Morris And William Jewell are the leading men, Morris in'* role verv like that which lie played so remarkably in , “Alibi.”

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