AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 147, 17 February 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

ASTAIRE AND ROGERS TEAMED AGAIN “Carefree” which screens at the De Luxe Theatre Saturday andi Monday, brings the famous dancing stars in their newest tuneful screen^romance — finest .of all their triumphs! Bubbling with romance and comedy and Irving Berlin’s catchiest songs, RKO Radio’s new “Carefree” reunites Fred Astairo and Ginger Rogers in what is hailed as the most delightful screen vehicle of their brilliant careers. Brightly modern in theme and treatment, the picture deals with the triangular romance between a popular actress, a distinguished psychiatrist and a successful lawyer. Astaire portrays the medical man and Ralph Bellamy is the attorney, whose uncertain love affair with Miss Rogers leads him to call on Astaire for help*. From this innocent beginning stems the joyous complications of the story. Fred gives Ginger a course of treatment which leads her to fall in Jove with him instead of with Bellamv, and which involves her in a series of wild escapades that hit new highs in the' annals of Astaire-Rogers hilarity. And after Fred has firmly planted in her mind the notion that he is a monster; he suddenly discovers that he is in love with her himself. This leads to a side-splitting climax. Like all ‘Astai re-Rogers vehicles “Carefree” sparkles with charming melodies and arresting dances. “Tho ■Yam,’’ scheduled to .be the popular dance bit of the season and which almost any amateur dancer can perform, is featured by the two winglooted stars, as -is the romantic “Change Partners” routine, a spectacular dance rivalling their “Cheek to Cheek” and “Night and Day” routines in earlier films. An ingenious Golf Dance in which Astaire solos, and a fantastic dream sequence by the two celebrities, comprise the other dancing specialities. Besides the songs of “The Yam” and “Change Partners,” the musical features include “The Night Is Filled With Music” and “I Used t 0 Be Colour Blind,” lrySng Berlin lumbers that are said to be among his greatest. Jack Carson is hailed as a real “find” in “Carefree” with his work as Astaire's young assistant. Luella Gear, noted Broadway comedienne, as Miss Rogers’ aunt; Clarence Kolb of the "famous Kolb and Dill team as a testy judge, and Walter Kingsford and Franklin Pangborn have other principal supporting roles.

“A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE” Romance finds its way into the. grim business of making steel, in the: new Columbia picture “A Dangerous Adventure,” which is scheduled open Saturday at the Do Luxe Theatre. Don Terry and Rosalind Keith play the leading x’oles amidst fiercely burning furnaces and clanging steel. Nana Bryant, John Gallaudet, Frank C. Wilson and Marc Lawrence are also featured. D. Ross Ledeiman directed.