AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 144, 10 February 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

JEANETTE MacDONALD AND NELSON EDDY CO-STAR RF. I) FOR FOURTH TIME Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson .Eddy, co-starred for the fourth time, introduce to IP3S audiences eight new and beautiful song numbers, composed) and written by Sigmund Rom--I)erg and Gim Kahn in “Tlie Girl of the Golden 'West.” opening Saturday at tho .Be Luxe Theatre. The numbers that the world is to first hear from the voices of the singing stars are “Shadows on the Mb on,” “'the Wind in the Trees,” “Soldiers of Fortune,” “Senorita,” “Sun-up to Sundown,” “Who* Are Vde to Say.” “Mariechi” and “The West Ain’t Wild Any More,” all by Romberg and Kahn. Miss MacDonald also sings Gounod s “Ave Maria and Liszt’s “.Dream, of Love.” Based on David Belasco’s pla>, “Hie Girl of the Golden West” is the stoT\ of M.arv. owner of the 3 olka. Saloon and dance hall in a. Calitoinia mining town in 18oQ. She is lo\ed hy the sheriff. Jack Ranee, but she falls in love with Ramerez, a bandit,

believing liim to Ik* :hi army oflieer. Ranee oventunlly captures Ramcrez in Glory’s <■!»ltiu alter wounding fiim. He consents to play cards with the girl for tin* bandit’s die. but the .sheriff catches her cheating. She promises to marry Ranee if lie frees Ra mere/, but shortly before the marriage he realises that Mary can love no one but Raineroz and permits them to be reunited. William Anthony McGuire produced “The Girl of the Golden West,” Robert Z. Leonard was the director and the supporting cast includes Walter Pidgeon, Lea Carrillo, Hu tidy Hbsen, Leonard Penn, Priscilla Lawson, Rob Murphy, Olin Howland, Cliff Edwards, Billy Reran, Brandon Tynan, H. B. Warner and Monty Woolley.