AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES.

STIRRING SONGS ADD TO PICTURE.

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

“Song of the Flame,” First National’s Vita-phono and all-Teclmieolour extravaganza, heralded as the screen’s initial talking spectacle, concludes at the. Princess Theatre to-night for a limited engagement. The picture is an operetta based on the stage success of Oscar Haipifyersteih 11. and Otto Harback. The story js?’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 Petrograd

and Russian villages. fake on now 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 the 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. “Song of the I lame f, is not an all-singing, opera type of picture, however; songs and music, occur only as logical expressions of a dramatic mood. Besides members of the cast who sing, there is one mass chorus of ,1001) voices, a chorus of 48 singers; a Russian chorus of .10, and a group of 17 Russian and foreign specialty singers and dancers.

Four shorts. Usual prirep; Circle 2s, Stalls Is (3d, plus tax.