AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

FRIDAY'INI) SATURDAY

STIRRING SONGS ADD TO m... .PICTURE. .

MUSIC BY LEADING COMPOSERS HEARD IN “SONG OF THE FLAME.”

“Song of the Flame,” First National’s Vitaphon© and all-Technicolour extravaganza, heralded as the screen’s initial talking spectacle, will open at the Princess Theatre to-night for a limited engagement. The picture is an operetta f -*based on the stage success of Oscar Hammerstein 11. and Otto Harback. ffiie, story is laid in Russia during the overthrow of the Czar. Big ' scenes, utilizing hundreds of players, ' are frequent. Scenes in the castles of royalty .and in the streets of Petroigrad and Russian, villages take on new splendour / through the Technicolour photography. The music is by George Gershwin and Herbert Stothart, with “Song of the Flame” as the outstanding number. It is a stirring song of the revolutionists. “The Signal,” “Cossack Love Song,” “My Heart’s Love Call” and “Petrograd” are names of some of tls other songs. Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Noah Berry, Alice Gentle;,;' Inez Courtney, Bert Roach and other stage and screen favourites in. the huge, all-star cast sing various songs. “Spug- of the,- Flame” is not an all-singing, opera type of picture, however;, songs and music aocur ,oq)y. as logical expressions of a Besides > members, of. the;, qast. who sing, there is one mass chorus of 1000 voices,, a chorus, of 48 singers;.a Russian chorus of 30, and a group of 17 Russian and foreign specialty singers and dancers. f ;.;sbßrts ~ the end -of the serial, in support. Usual prices: Circle 25., Stalls Is 6d plus tax. .