AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S PICTUREB. “KING OF JAZZ:’’ •TO-NldtfT I TO-NIGHT I • Just ' W Whiteman ihitnself stands SujJreme.dn the world of music, so his first Starring picture, Universes ‘.‘King ofJdzz,” to be screened to-night'* '(Thursday) stands supreme in • the ■‘world oif-entertainment. This colossal ixjvuo. is an all-movietone and all-technicdlour medley of inspiring V bewitching melody, matchless dancing 1 , clhver specialities and hilarious comedy, spectacle numbeis, notably the ( “Melting Pot” ; the georgebus dancing by the Russell Markert dancers throughout the picture, and the featured 'numbers of John Boles and Jeanette . Loff. Boles’ splendid voibe has already made him popular, blit the combination of his baritone ahd Whiteman’s music in such songs as “It happened in Monterey” and ‘/Tlie Song of the Dawn” is superb. Jeanette Lbff is so beautiful and so talented that her presence is outstandifig. ■ There" are in all, 1 eight musical spectacle numbers whose grandeur sweep everything 'before them. John Murray Anderson, one of the most celebrated stage producers in America, ’ cannot bo too highly commended both for the breadth of his conception in' creating “King of Jazz’ ’ and for liis selection of the marvellous airay of ‘tdJent who appear in it.