AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 92, 3 October 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“JOY OF LIVING 1 ' A •distinctly “different” ty pc ol' musical uiiima in lieraiueu m "ooy ci juving,*' lieu musical comedy wu.li iiciu* xiiiiuie and Puiiglas raubaiiKs a nr., ana with new .Jerome ixoru mciouics NvU.cli into UK' spilgliliy plot. .the story deals wrin a storms' romance between Miss Duiilie, a popular musical cemeuy star wiiosc nuy income is lavished on Her scliisn untidy, and I 1 airhaiiks, a .sen-con mi cut young man. ulio lias disinherited Ins i ich, i cla lives L ( j become a sort ol sea vagabond, who preaches a doctintc lm i j attaining liappiness by doing wliat you want to do. Believing her duty lies in letting her parents and her sister hate their **own way, and in working to the limit of her endurance m order ty satis I y their rapacious demands, Miss Dunne quarrels violently with Fairbanks when ne urges her to throw her family overhoard and learn to enjoy liersell. And Ids uutcuiven tiyual efforts to convince her make for delightful cotnpl: -ations in. the story and lead to its gripping climax when she at last sees ier rem lives in their true light. Woven into this ingenious and intensely human story are some o' t: 1 *-> year’s catchiest tunes, with 'lie lyi 'cs by Dorothy and Herbert Diehl, set to music hy Jerome Kern, who wrote tim melodies Miss Dunne sang in “Uobof4ta” and “Show Boat” A spectacular Tyrolean dance routine, and settings that range from a tramp steamer and a cheap-amusement .park iu a luxuri'ous metropolitan home, ad.a to Hie colour of “Joy of Diving” Alice Brady a s Miss I turners hypocritical mother heads the featured cast, winch includes Buy Kibbco. Dixon. Kirie Blore, Lucille Ball Warren Hymer. “Joy of Living” will he screened at •the Do Luxe Theatre on Tuesday and. Wednesday (matinee Wednesday).