ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 6 July 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “TOP OF THE. TOWN.” A musical film with a great reputation, “Top of tho Town,” will screen finally at the Regent to-night. The offering utilises the seven song hits in it to help tell the story, rather than the music using the movie; tor a song rack. Radio talent of national reputation was chosen to present the melodies. Greta N'isuoy, exotic star of the Ziegfe'd Follies and dramatic stage, since four number*, “Whore Arc You?” “Blame it on to the Rumba,” “Top of the Town,” and “Jamboree.” The entire production wan planned to emphasise novo, camera, music and story presentation. The dcisgning of the moonbeam room set, covering more than an acre, shows architectural construction never attempted before for a motion picture. ‘“'J'op of the ’Town” builds rhythmically towards the “Jamboree” sequence, which tends hundreds of the performer* into a happy .pandemonium of swaying, bowing humanity. Featured players sing delicious lyrics to swing music played by the orchestra. Two choral groups of 150 trained voices echo the mad melody, a community eongleast ill suing time. Speciality dancers start whirling in modern swing rhythm and an entire audience, filmed as part of tho production, glides into a spontaneous interweaving pattern, like swimmers curving through rippling waves. Motion and melody go on a rampage of mirth. George Murphy and Doris Nolan portray the romantic leads, with George, featuring his new dance creations. Ella Logan, popular radio blues singes and comedienne, runs riot with her otter ngs, “I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On, “There Are No Two Ways About It,” and “Fireman, Save My Child.” Ten other comedians are prominently cast—such laughter provokers as Mischa Auer, HenryArmetta, Hugh Herbert, Gregory Raton, and the Three Sailors, Jason, Robson and Blue.

STATE THEATRE. ‘ GIRL IN A MILLION.” Si ar-radiant, laugh-lavish and melodyladen with romance and drama in stunning snow-dh crcd settings, “Girl In A Million.” die Twentieth Century-Fox spectacular musical smash that thrillingly giorifics lovely Sonja Home, 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 in a million that includes, in addition to Sonja Henio, the Queen of the Silvery Skates, Adolphe Alenjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Spark*, Don Amcche, the Ritz Brother*, Arline Judge, Borrah Mineviteh and his gang, Dixie Dunbar, Leah Ray and Shirley Deane. v CORONATION TECHNICOLOUR FILM. The special 20th Centuryd'ox Film of the Coronation, which is to screen at the ,Statc Theatre, Palmerston North, in conjunction with “Girl Iu a Million,” is 1000 feet in length in the nio.-t glorious technicolour 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, 20th Century-Fox offers you these historic pictures which show*, as no mc-e black and white print could, all the colourful pageantry, the glorious pomp, and withal, the dignity of the crowning of a King ol England. It would ho impossible to conceive any greater impression of the tranquil peace and dominant power of the British Empire than is conveyed in this technicolour reel. But the advent of the coach of State pales everything else. The absolute splendour of its shining golden glory and the sight ol Their Majestic* in their robes of State seated inside, is a picture that takes the breath away. Queen Mary arrives in her glass coach, the little Princesses follow’ lo Tlie delight of the cheering throngs.