AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 131, 9 January 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“THE LIFE OF THE PARTY 5 ’ Ail all star high-speed modern romance around which is built one of the gayest screen musical comedies of the season is “The Life of the Party,” coining »to-night toi ' the Do Luxe Theatre. Film, notables run. rampant in this filinusical.

Gene Raymond and Harriet Hilliard, the screen’s \ newest romantic teain, supply the heart interest, and Joe Penner, Parkj-akarkus, Helen Broderick and Victor MoOre, four of the top funsters of pictures to-day, furnish most of the hilarity. “The Life of the Party” concerns the . romance between Raymond and

Miss Hilliard-—a romance which follows a rocky and uproarious path interspersed. with six tuneful hits aiid three spectacular dance . numuerS. {Raymond,, heir to a fortune which he loses if he marries before lie is tidily, falls in love with Harriet Hiiharl, a struggling young singer whose mother wants her to marry anotner rich man when her mother forces Joe Penner on her, Harriet pretends she is married to> Raymond.

Then ail concerned throw monkey wrenches into the wheel os of. romance. Victor Moore, as Raymond’s keeper,’ summons the scion’s mother Heich Broderick, Harriet’s manager, tries to halt the alfair because it would- mean the loss of a client. Parkyakarkus. as the hotel detective, snoops to and out of bedroom doors at the wrong times. Penner performs his eccentricities to everyone s consternation.

From romantic ballads to novelty J numbers, the musical features cl § ‘.‘The Life of the Party” are weii cm- } pliasised by Miss Hilliard m four vocal numbers, with Raymond joining her in two of them; and another is sung by Penner while the sixth backgrounds a spectacular diiiice feature. * ij I Most of tlie picture's action takes place in a luxurious hotel in SantA Barbara. California, the famous ‘ mi!-'' iionaires’ playground” of the Pacilid [ Coast. !

The supporting cast is headed by* Billy Gilbert. Franklin Pankborn, Ann Miller, Ann Shoemaker, Margaret Dumont and other notables. “TIP-OFF GIRLS” A romance between the secretary <>l America’s leading racketeer and a Gman whose job is to crush tlie dangerous gang forms the exciting love plot of “Tip-Off Girls,” the drama which screens tonight and Tuesday at the De Luxe Theatre. Mary Carlisle, the pearl blonde star plays the gal who unwittingly becomes the tool of the hi-jacking gang, while Lloyd Nolan, is the G-man who releases her from her trap. This picture is Hollywood's answer to the racket which has mushroomed throughout the country during the past few years and threatens to take bootlegging’s place as “Public Nuisance JN'o. 1.” Louis King, who brought the dramatic “Bulldog Drum- , mond” pictures to the screen, directed.