AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 126, 23 December 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

“REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM”

You’d never know the old l'ii,rm now—it’s a streamlined Radio Centre, with Shirley Temple mi a happiness hook-up in the title role ol “Uehoeca ol; Sunny brook Farm,” her ' best-ol-all musical. The lint l star of the screen is supported by her starriest east, sunniest songs, swing,iosj, dances and a hey-liey load of laughter in this now 20th, Century-Fox musical comedy hit n.pening tpi-niglil at the Do Luxe Theatre.

When radio appears down by the eld mill stream it raises a bumper crop oi song and fun, with Randolph Scott and "(florin Stuart united in glorious romance, Jack Haley and Slim Summerville making merry, and tap-king Rill Robinson and Shirley at. tap-speed. Phyllis Brooks, Helen West ley, .The Raymond Scott Quintet, Alan, Dinehiirt and .1. Kdwnrd Bromberg, also are featured, and when all is, said and sung, could you ask for anything morel' To the roster of rcniancing stars, dancing stars, comedy stars and singing stars are added six sunny new song hits, in addition to a medley of Shirley’s famous hits of the past which she sings again. The new songs are; “An Old Straw Hat.” by (Jordon and Revel;' “Alone With You”, ‘‘Happy Finding”, and “Crnckly Crain Flakes", by Pol h»<'k and .Mitchell; “Come ami Cet- Vo'iir Happiness”, by Pokrass and Yellcn ; and “Toy Trumpet”, with music try Raymond Scott and lytios by Pollack and Mitchell.'

‘IT HAPPHNFII) OCT W-KST’

Harold Hell Wright’s latest and greatest thrill-teeming story, of an easy-going Jfinsterner who makes the wild West wilder by out-bluffing and out-roughing the tough homines who menace Ids romance, means exciting screen fare at the Do Loixo 'lliealre, whore “It Happened Out West,” Twentieth Oentury-Fojc release, opens to-night witli Paul Ivel ly and Judith Allen in the featured roles.

In, keeping with all Harold Hell Wright fiction, the story is a strictly modern one; of the new West, a virile, fast-moving plot of the type that has made the author pre-eminent among outdoor adventure writers.

Tl 110 FIIMOFIA”

Foremost musical picture ol the year and probably in screen history, M'et rn-(J old wyiir Mayer's a dap tat ion ol Rudolf Friml’s operetta, “The I'U'eH.v,” epens Monday at the De Luxe Theatre, with Jeanette .MacDonald starred, and Allan Jones and' Warren William in featured roles. I lure is screen art istry at its height.. The dramatic story of ••'pain io the era when Napoleon was conquered at Vittoria by Wellington, provides a moving, plot as vast and impressive as auyi that could he filmed. And, artistically, it provides a vehicle for the Frijidl score.

* Jeanette, MacDonald appeals in her seventeenth musical triumph and it is unmistakably her finest. Allan domes emerges as a star in Ids own right. Warren William performs with his accustomed artistry. The excellent supporting east, includes Hilly Gilbert, Henry Daniell, Douglass Diimhrille, Leonard Penn, Tom Kuthcrlurd, Hello Mitchell, George Zueco, Corbett Morris and Matthew I ton I ton, with an enormous group ol coistujned extras. Miss Mac Do,mi,ld dances with raie grace and sings “Dove Is lake a lDrellv.” “He Who Loves and Huns Awny” and “When a Maid Comes Knocking at Ymu; Henri”. Jones sings “A Woman’s Kiss” and “Ihe Donkey Serenade”, and they join in duet in “Ginuiiinn M,iu,” and ‘Sympathy”. The whole score is gay with brilliant Spanish melody, and the film has been staged on a scale of mirestriet<*d, beauty that could he possible only in Hollywood. The screen (day .was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Haekelt, Irom an adaptation of the Otlo A. Harhach book and lyrics hy Ogden Nash.