AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 246, 13 October 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

“SWEETHEARTS” .Modern dress, a modern story and modern teelmieolour befit Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy better than anything they have attempted in the past. Despite their successes together in “Naughty Marietta,” “Hose Marie,” “Mhytime” and “Girl of the Golden West” they establish still another milestone for the film musical in “Sweethearts/* which screens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. - A new warmth and vividness of personality colours all their efforts in this new Victor Herbert' adaptation, and whether the cause includes the story,

the dress (jij- the Toehnicolour, they emerge as even brighter luminaries of the Hollywood firmament*. As stars of a Broadway, “Show within a show.” they are right in their element and; handle the comedy as skilfully as their singing assignments. An unprecedented cast of comedy personalities surrounds them, with Frank Morgan pre-eminent as the Hlittery show producer. Ray Bo Igor winning the limelight he deserves as the ,-how’s dancer, Florence Rice adding to a scries of rocuß Ibis /with her secretary rote. Mi-cha Alter and Herman Bing the laugh riots they, always are, as tho battling coin poser and librettist and Reginald Gardiner as an ingenious Hollywood agent. .MARCH OF TIM El NO. 9(4 1939 •JAPAN—MASTER OK THE ORIENT

March of Time’s cameras pried into government propaganda headquarters Irom which the patriotic, reverent Japanese arc hourly advised by radio, andi press of “gloriously won battles, of heavy enemy losses.” Though, the demqcratie world considers the war in China an act of aggression on the part of a boundlessly ambitious nation, Japanese are advised by their gandists that the war is a “hoiy cru-* sado,” blessed by their Shinto gods/ Few people know that the Japanese are having a difficult time developing Mnnchukuo. March of Time tells how Japanese soldiers must stand guard by their colonists when they work in the lieltlk. how few of the riches they, hoped to find there have materialised, how Chinese coolies, working as slaves’, are building military roads for their Japanese lords, though Mnnchukuan natives arc too poor to buy even tho cheapest of cheap Japanese goods. For, .points out the March of Time, it mus# he self-sufficient, to hack up Japan’s Army in its eventual war with Russia, its great hid; to he really “Master of the Orient”. .March of Time No. 90 will he screened at the Regent Theatre on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.