AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 16, 28 March 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“MELODY FOR TWO” James Melton, for several years the idol of the air waves because of his magnificent tenor voice, is now on the screen in his third motion picture— a musical of course—called “Melody For Tivo,” a Warner Bros, production which will open at the De Luxe Theatre on Tuesday. James has been stepping right along in the movies within the last year or so. His first picture was “Stars Over Broadway” and his second “Sing Me A Love Song.” Both were substantial successes. “Melody For Two,” is a, musical comedy based on rather a new angle. It has nothing toy clo With the theatre or the usual .backstage stuff. Its theme i.s the stiff competition that, exists between 1 musical organisations and" individual performers whose works are heard on the radio—the competition being especially stiff when it gomes to trying for the wellpaid spots on the big national networks.. Patricia Ellis is the lovely girl who helps Aid ton and his. organisation to victory. ' Patricia reveals for the first time on the screen that she can sing as well as act. ( Others in the cast include Dick Purcell, Fred Keating, Gordon Elliott and Mario Wilson. There are six big song numbers, written by the famed to fins of Warren and Dubin and Jerome and Scholl. # V 5; * “FEATHER. YOUR .NEST” “No* Limit” and “Keep Ycur Seats, Please,” two of tl;e : funniest films ever released, established George Form by among the. screen's most popular comedians, and ins third picture, “Feather ’Your Nest,” which comes to the De Luxe Theatre, on Tuesday, is even funnier than the other two. With his übiquitous ukelelc and broad “Lancashire” grin, Formby goes ‘through the paces in liigh-geared humour, guaranteed to have everyone rolling and .. rocking in their seats. He’s a dumb-witted country “laad,” employed as a gramophone iactory recordist. Breaking the master record of an “ace” he makes another, substituting liis own voice to banjo accompaniment, thus hoping to save his job and the rosy dreams of a, five-bob rise with which to pay the instalments on his. new house and furniture. '1 he song, “Leanin’ on. a Lamp-post,” has <i pleasant swing and catchy time, and is the forerunner to two other equally pleasing numbers, “Feather Your Nest,” and “I’m As Happy as a ■Sandboy,” which George renders during the fiim.