AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 209, 19 July 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“LITTLE IVSfSS BROADWAY” Hattie- .Miss Broadway” screening at the Regent Theatre- on Thursday and Friday (Matinee Thursday) stars George Murphy. Phyllis Brook,s, Edna .May Oliver, and Edward Ellis. Every jneir.v melodious moment establishes this as Shirley's most successful musical comedy revel.... She’s a Shirley of surprises, will) her grandest east of troupers around her. To make this the musical thrill hit oi the year six new Bullock and Spina melodies radiate from the romance, and the selectors can choose irom “Bo Optimistic,” “Me Should Be Together,’’ ‘‘lf All the World Were Paper.” “Swing ilo. An Old-fashion-ed Seng.” “Ho>v (..an L thank. Aon . and “kittle .Miss Broadway,” the title- song. The film is about a little miss who lives in a- vaudeville hotel with her foster family, Edward Ellis and Phyllis Brooks. . “.MARCH OF TIME” .No. GO 1939. “Slate of the Nation—l 939”. Tin Maxell of Time turns its camera tc

the F.S. scene to portray ‘”The Sato of the Nation—l 939,” and! reveals the importance of the public opinion survey as a scientific method of reporting what the nation is thinking on important- national issues and of making the opinions of the nation’s 130,090,000 citizens known to their government- representatives. Tracing the development of one such poll, -Match of Time shows its .significance on the U.S. scene to-day. By obtaining a true cross-section of the U.S. population—by income, geographical division and occupation, -March of Time reveals how its results first predicted,; the re-election oi President Roosevelt. But- of equal importance—thefilm shows—is the -poll's significance . as a barometer of the nation’s point of view on New Deal policies: its social objectives, methods, spending, •' conservation, work and home relief, medical care, old age security; and its indication of general U.S. approval of the president. ‘‘The State of the Nation” shows how with this trend to greater interest and feeling of responsibility in U.S. affairs has developed a feeling of greater security and well being on, the part of the average American. Shown herein are the hopeful signs ior U.S. economic recovery after nine full years of depression: the rise in national income, increase in bank deposits, the upturn in.;st;el and automobile production, snaringg carloadings, and the promise of a real housing boom. But despite these recovery signs, as March 6f Time shows, there still remains the problem of 10,000,000 U.S. Unemployed.