AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 63, 29 July 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“THIN ICE’’ A gav and magnificent, musical that skims m shimmering delight along the silvery Alpine slopes, snowdrenched with dazzling spectacle and exciting beauty, heart-warming with riotous fun and young romance, brings Sonja Henie and ’Tyrone Power together, as you wanted them to lie. thrilling, as you know they’d be, in the Twentieth Century-Fox picture. “Thin Ice,” which opens on Saturdnv at the Do Luxe Theatre.

Topping all her triumphs of “One in a AliHion,” Aliss Henie is more radiantly exciting than ever as she displays new beauty, new daring and new breath-taking thrills. The story is swiftly paced, exhilarntinglv exciting, and hilariously funny. It gets off to a, fast start when Tyrone, a Prince who has come to an Alpine winter resort to escape the bickerings cf two agents over a neutrality pact, accidentally meets Aliss Henie while skating, and introduces himself to her as a newspaper reporter. Interspersed throughout the story are three elaborate skating numbers, which are the Prince Igor Bussian Ballet, a beautiful Vienna AA’altz, and the Foxtrot Fantasy. In these ice innovations, Aliss Henie executes her most intricate ice designs. Hundreds of grogeous girls are also in the sensational ice-revels set against the dazzling and breath-taking beauty of the Swiss Alps. These innovations on ice are more elaborate and intricate than anything ever before attempted on the screen. Alarvellous music for the marvel musical includes “MV Secret Love Affair,” “Over Night”, “Aly Swiss Hilly Billy”, and “I’m Olga From the Volga”.

Arthur Treacher, Raymond AA'alIntru and Joan Davis head the important supporting cast, v/hich aiso includes Sig Bumann, Alan Hale, Leah Bay, Melville Cooper. Maurice Cass, and George Givot.