AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 183, 17 May 1939, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“SING YOU SINNERS” A gay story of tlie lips and downs of a madcap family, who rise from small town obscurity, to fame and fortune at "Los Angeles’ night, clubs and xace tracks in a series of pay episodes, is told in “Sing You Sinners”, Paramount’s Bing Uros by-Fred ALacAlurray comedy, coming Thursday and Friday to the Regent Theatre. 'The fast-moving story) is punctuated by a. number of songs from some of Hollywood’s foremost popular composers. They are: “Small Fry,” a captivating noveltyi number from the pens of Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser,. and “I’ve Got a Pocketf Full of Dreams,” “Don’t Let That Aloon Get Away”' and “Laugh and Call it Love”. “Sing You Sinners” tells an amusing tale of a ne’er-do-well.young, man who nearly, wrecks his family .through his irresponsibility but finally puts them all on Easy Streetthrough liis ability to “pick” racehorses and organise singing acts. A prominent member of the cast is lovely Ellen Drew, the now star discovery of Producer-Director Wesley Buggies, who, as ALacAlurray’s girl friend, has her biggest film role to date. “IT’S A GRAND OLD WORLD” “It’s A Grand Old AYorldi”, which screens at ; the Regent Theatre oil Thursday and Friday, is a mixture d music, mirth andi melody, and brings Sandy Powell to the screen as a football fan, a radio star, a stage hand, a lion tamer, and a gambler—in l'ai t just the sort of situations that his fans expect him to get into. Three new song hits by Jimmy Kennedy are featured in the film, these being titled, “It’g A Grand Old AYorldi”’' “Bouncing Ball”, and “Signing On”’. For sheer party laughter, with a dash of musical comedy thrown in, the pictuie cannot be bettered.