AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 191, 7 June 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“YOU’RE A SWEETHEART” Alice Faye, more glamorous and beautiful than ever before, .singing the, hit songs of the year, and for the first time on the screen dancing, the art which brought her to the screen in the beginning.

George Muiphy in the hilarious role of a waiter who becomes a millionaire for a week, wins the Jove* of “a Broadway star and figures in the headline romance of the century! He dances as he never danced before, r These two favourites of the Screen, together witlWan all startoast of the world’s most ' brilliant entertainers were swil led together in a lavish cocktail of melody, laughter and grande til to produce Universal’s smashing musical triumph “You’re a Sweetheart,” which starts Thursday at the Regent Theatre. Costing more than "a million dollars, 1 the 13. G. “Buddy” DeSvlva, production reveals Ken .Murray and Oswald at their funniest, together with Frank Jenks and Frances Hunt, twoi nek comedy discoveries of the year. Leading a dancing-chorus of more than

hundred beautiful girls is Edna Sedgwick, famous ballerina, of two, continents. Andy Devine is seen as the comical body-guard who wants to get back into prison so he cam play on tin football team.. These and a dozen other elements make “You’re a Sweet, heart” a top-notch - musical that stands in a class by itself. Seen in a dancing role for the first time on the screen, Alice Faye and George Murphy form a* new team of dancing stars, backed by a chorus of pretty girls, that will literally take one’s - breath away as they spin, whirl and glide to the newest song creations of Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson.

Those who have seen the lavish production -declare tliat there is more solid' entertainment, more laughs, more spectacular dance routines and beautiful song mini hers - woven into the picture than in any other musical that was ever shot-. “SAFETY IN -NUMDERS” “Safety In Numbers”, the Jones Family’s latest, screens Thursday, and Friday at the Regent- Theatre. This delightful 20th. Century-Fox comedy finds America’s favourite folks ten times funnier than ever—because this time they’fe all in a jam together, piovhig that where there’s a jam there’s bound to be a Jones, and vice versa.! The picture opens with -Mrs. Jones agreeing to go on the air with a weekly broadcast on domestic problems. Her sponsor controls the site oi a new mineral Wfrtt s r~"discoverv in which the good citizens of Maryville—ledi by Dad Jones—are anxiou.s to invest their savings. So preoccupied is the family with visions of sudden wealth .that no one realizes that Jack Jones has fallen in .Jove meanwhile with pretty Toni Stewart, a newcomer to Maryville, who wants Jack to oh pcwith her. Jack, suggests that they send hir mother an anonymous letter, in care of the radio station, asking her advice. She discusses their problem in her next- broadcast and. to Jack’s and Toni’s utter surprise, gives her approval to the match. = On the day the two lovers plan to elope, it is discovered that the spring water contains no minerals—which mans that Dad] and the- other investors have! been duped, about £IOO,OOO worth! It is only the quick thinking of Mrs. Jones, using her regular broadcast time, that lures the swindlers back to their eventual capture by the entire familyi and, incidentally, brings Jack and Toni back, to their senses.