AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 104, 2 November 1938, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

i “DOUBLE OR NOTHING” As impressive a. cast a« you will sec in many a moon of movies has been assembled by Paramount lor its new couni’dy with music, “Double or Nothing,” which ojiens Thursday at the De Luxe Theatre. With Bing Crosby in the star position, the east includes such popular entertainers as Martha Rayo, Andy Devine, Alary Carlisle, William Drawley, Fay Holden, Samuel S. Hinds, William Henry and others and also lias specialty bits from that lamed comedy team the Calgary Brothers, the noted eccentric dancing team ol' Ames and Arno, Alplionso Berg. Tex AL'orrissey, Frances Faye and ICd Rickard. In addition there is an aggregation of some seventy-live beautiful girls andi handsome young men known as tin* “Sing Band”. This group uses no musical instruments yet “plays” popular music by Imitating the various instruments of a dance orchestra so closely that it is impossible for the human ear to tell the difference. The “Sing Band” renders several new musical bits writen expressly for “Double or Nothing” by the song writing teams of .Johnson and Burke, who gave the world “Pennies From Heaven,” Sam Onslow and AI Siegel, and Ralph Freed and Burton Lime. “Double or Nothing,” which is a gay and irresponsible story of four persons vicing with a crooked) lawyer to get a million dollar legacy is the first- Crosby picture in which Ring uses the same feminine romantic- lead for flic second time. The honour falls t 0 lovely Alary Carlisle who- appeared opposite Bing for the first time in the smash hit “College Humour”. “FIT FOR A KING” Joe E. Brown and Paul Kelly appear as rival newshawks in “hit For a King” the comedian’s latest mirth vehicle which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Thursday and Friday.

fii ;i side-splitting story -which tells of deep (lark plots in. a mythical Itlnropt'iiii kingdom, Brown and Kelly battle each other ami l mutual enemies for the news and facilities for nutting their stories on the wires. A large east of favourites. is seen in support, with lovely Helen Alack appearing as the feminine lead. Others are Harry Davenport, Malliwell Hobbes, John Qualen, Donald Briggs, Drank Beicher, llusselk Hicks and Charles Trowbridge. “Kit For a King”, an Edward .Sedgwick production,• is from the screen play by Richard Flournoy.