AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

evrrybcdys pictures. TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY. “HIT THE DECK'D’ i. ' / ’ ■■' \ Although the stage version -of “Hit the Deck” was admittedly ,':.0ne..0.. Broadiyay/s biggest hits, .it only could suggest the -inijneuse scope, colour, and narrative; appeal of. Radio... Pictures screen version,.at the Princess. Theatre to-night and Tuesday. For-iustance,. the.. “Hallelujah” song on - the: stage ...was-, a. solo. In the pictu'e it has gtown unto a Negro spiritualist meeting .interpreted, by a chorus of 100 Negro sirigers and ' dancers. Four new songs have... been . added to the original score The entire. naval base at San Diego, Cal., is used for a background, which, on the stage, was represented by a painted back drop. The legitimate cast numbered about 100 —the screen has utilised approximately a thousand. Three of the. largest,-motion picture sets ever bui)t|f-a : . life-size village, a replica of theSdeek of a,.battleship, and a Negro taberpacle—by . comparison, were, dnly suggested, on the stage. As a finishing, touch,... “Hit the Deck” impartially screened in technicolour. Never before has “Hit the Dock been, produced, with a• cast of. snob distinguished names. It reads like a blue book, of the ; Polly Walker, Broadway star ' Jack Oakie, Hollywopd’s, -sensational cpmedian ; MaigueritA; Padula, mummy—,singer de luxe ; Rogep . Gray a>?4 Franker Woods, of the 'Original New York cast; Ethel Claytoiiv, 'jJine rGlydc, Wallace MacDonald, jv-Horry SVeet, George' Oyev, black-face comic, .Dell' Henderson, Nate Sjlottj Andy Clark and. Chas. Sullivan. the Deck”—“Join the Navy”;' Sailors’. chonjij “Looloo”; Sailors’ chorus; “Sez You—Sez Me”, Jack Oakie and .Girls ; “Harbor of .My Heart” ? Jack Oakie and .Polly Walker ; “Hallelujah”, Marguerita Padula and Negro chorus; “£>mith”, Sailors’ chorus"; (jould Be Sweeter”, Brox Sisters; “Keeping. Myself Just for You”, Polly -Walker and Girls; “Sometin^es'..i,’m Happy’’, Jack Oakie and Polly Walker. Luther Reed, director, and Robert Kuri.le, cameraman, the team which produced “Rio Rita,” Radio Pictures’ sensational musical extravaganza, also teamed on “Hit .the Deck.”.