AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 54, 8 July 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“PICK A STAR” “Pick A Star,” opening Saturday at the De Luxe /Theatre, is presented as a star-spangled satire of' Hollywood studio life to bring forth tittes, chuckles and guffaws in a melodious mirthquake. Hoydenish Patsy Kelly, wistfui Jack Haley and beautiful Rosina Lawrence are pictured as an adventurous trio who take the trek from Waterloo, Kancas, to Hollywood, California. Here the dazed Jayhawks run into the spectacular, fast-paced and hectic swirl of motionpictures. Haley, in love with Rosina, goes through a series of misadventures in trying to obtain a screen test for her. But Mischa Auer, as the ultra film hero, paves the way, to crash the studio gates and bask in the limelight oi night clubs. Wise-cracking Patsy Kelly, however, defeated his romantic interlude with Rosina and helps Haley Hardy, those inimitable and irrepressible comedy stars, making a movie. Good old-fashioned Laurel and Hardy, buffoonery is unrelled as its best and the climax of sparkling gags is reached when Patsy Kelly invades the set. Rosina Lawrence rendition of the title song-hit, “Pick a Star” ; beautifully massed choruses of hundreds of Hollywood’s most outstanding dancers and a lavish night club set with the tremendous battery of lights all add to the spectacular effect of the production. “Pick' a Star” is rated a classic of furious fun and melodious music with a’-star-studded east. “SWING HIGH. SWING LOW” it is not a musical. Paramount’s “Swing High, Swing Low,” which co-stars Carole Loin hard and Fred Mac Murray, and which comes to the De Luxe Theatre on Saturday and Monday has a number of original songs written by top-notch Hollywood tUiiesmiths. Miss Lombard sings in this film lor the first time. As a liiglit-club entertainer in torrid Panama, who bills in love with the adventuring Mac Murray, she sings '“1 Hear a Call to Arms” and “Then It Lsn’t Love.” Dorothy Lamour, who made her film debut in “The Jungle Princess” croons “Panamania.” a new swing lathy Coslow and Siegel, and Mac Murray, long known as an outstanding saxophonist, plays trumpet accompaniments to Miss Lombard. The cast also includes Charles Butterwortli, Jean Dixon, Harvey Stephens and other well-kn Own feature players.