AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 91, 30 September 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS” Sparkling with catchy Gershwin times and with one of P. G., Wodehotise’s. most hilarious stories of English 5 social life as, its basis, RKO Radio’s new “A Damsel in Distress” collies Saturday and Monday to the De Luxe Theatre to present Fred Astaire in his first pietjurfc with George Burns and Graeic Alien. The film lias been planned throughout to affoidi the wing-footed favourite exceptional opportunities for sensational novelty dances and comedy, and with its brilliant cast, its unique and uproarious plot and its timeful melodies, the offering' is. said to ho one of the real screen events of the season. Fred Astaire sings seven of the eight song ..numbers in the film and performs five now dance routines that are said to he the most spectacular of liis entire career- The songs’, .written' by the. late George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, are likewise hailed as tops in the melodic field, with “A Foggy Day In London.” and “Things Are Looking Up” as gay romantic ballads: “I Can’t Be Bothered Now” and “Nice Work If ,You Can'Get it” as novelty numbers and two catchy tunes written in old-fashioned madrigal style. “MIDNIGHT INTRUDER” “Midnight Intruder,” a Universal thriller with a mystery-laden plot, screens at the Dc Luxe Theatre Saturday and Monday. This picture, which was filmed from an original story by the famous author damning Pollock and adapted for the screen by Lester Cole, is cheerfully calculated to keep the audience in rapt suspense one minute, and make them rock with laughter the next. It is all about the adventures encountered by one Barry Gilbert, an adventurer with gentleman’s manners, when he poses us the son of John Reittcr, a wealthy publisher. The excitement begins when lie meets the wife of the man lie is impersonating; the mystyiy is supplied when he becomes a sleuth and sets out to solve a. murder.