ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 3 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “TOP OF THE TOWN.” A musical film with a great reputation, “Top of the Town,” will screen at tho Regent to-night. The offering utilises the seven song hit* in it, to help tell the story, rather than the music using the movie for a song rack. Radio talent of national reputation was chosen to present, Iho melodies. Greta Nisson, exotic star of the Ziegfcld Follies and dramatic stage, since four number*, “Where Arc You '!” “B.amo it on to the Rumba,” “Top of the Town,’ - and “Jamboree.” The entire production was planned to emphasise novo* camera, music and story presentation. The deisgning of the moonbeam room set, covering more than an acre, shows architectural construction never attempted before for a motion picture. ‘“Top of the Town” builds rhythmically towards the “Jamboree” sequence, which sends hundreds of the performer* into a happy pandemonium of swaying, flowing humanity. Tealttred players "sing delicious lyrics to swing music played by the orchestra. Two choral groups of 150 trained voices echo the mad melody, a community songfeast in swing time, tap cfiu.it y dancers start whirling ui modern swing rhythm and an entire audience, filmed a* part of the production, glide* into a spontaneous interweaving pattern, like swimmers curving through rippling waves. Motion and melody go on a rampage of mirth. George Murphy and Deris Nolan portray the romantic leads, with George, featuring his new dance creations. Ella Logan, popular radio blues singer and comedienne, runs rioi with her offering*, “[ Foci That Foolish Foiling Coming Oil, “There Are No Two Ways About It,” and “Fireman, Save My Child” Ten other comedians aic prominently caut-such laughter provokers as Mischa Auer, Henry Armetta, Hugh Herbert, Gregory Rat off, and tiie Three Sailors, Jason, Robson, and Blue.

STATE THEATRE. “GIRL IN A MILLION.” Star-radiant, laugh-lavish and melodyladen with romance and drania in stunning snow-silvered settings, “Girl In A Million.” Ihe Twentieth Century-Fox spectacular musical smash that. thrillmgly glorifies lovely Sonja Henic, screen* to-night at the State Theatre. With a hundred gorgeous girls in sensational ice-revels amid a dazzling winter wonderland of breath-taking beauty, it is the wonder show of 1937 with a cast m a million that include*, in addition to Sotija Henic, the Queen of the Silvery Skates, Adolphe Menjott, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Don Ameche. the ltitz Brother.?, Arlinc Judge, Borrah Minevitch and his gang, Dixie Dunbar, Leah Rav and Shirley Deane. Th* daughter of a Swiss innkeeper, Sonja Henic is being trained by her father, Joan Hersholt. to capture the Olympic figure skating chumnionship. Sonja attracts the interest of Don'Ameche, young American newspaperman investigating a neighbourhood mystery, who sec* in her unusual n atcrinl for a human interest story for In* paper. Sonja also interests, professionally, t 1,,. ri.ml.'e-r. but glib tnmrucd manager nl a vaudeville troupe, Adolphe Mcnjoii, Strain!* d in Hersholt’* ho*tclrv. In Menjou’s group arc the Ritz Brothers, Arlinc Judge, lierrrh Minevitch and his pang. Dixie Dunbar. Leah Ray. Shirley Deane and 12 beautiful girl*. .Donjon induces Sonja to join his troupe and arrange*, a contract in St. Alortiz for tho dazzling ice ballet lie has envisioned.

CORONATION TECHNICOLOUR FILM. The special 20th Century-Fox Film of the Coronation, which is to screen at tho State Theatre, Palmerston North, in conjunction with “Ctrl ill a Million,” is 1000 feet in length in the most glorious technieolour to have yet been projected, which focuses fifteen hundred years of British tradition and symbolism' into the short space of time occupied by the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Exclusively, 20lh Century-Fox offers you these historic pictures which show, as no tnc-c black and white print could, all the colourful pageantry, ihe glorious ptpmp, and withal, the dignity of the crowning of a King of England. It would he impossible to conceive any - greater impression of the tranquil peace and dominant power of the British Empire than is conveyed in this technieolour reel. But the advent of the roach of Stale pales everything else, Ihe absolute splcndom of its shining golden glory and tho sight of Their Majesties in their robes of Slate seated inside, is a picture that takes the breath away. Queen Mary arrives m her glass coach, tho little Princesses follow to the delight of the cheering throngs.