BEAUTY AND SONGS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 2

BEAUTY AND SONGS

"THE KID FROM SPAIN," EDDIE CANTOR'S BEST. COMING TO^ MAJESTIC. i Promised by Samuel Goldwyn as the biggest ias well as the funniest picture to come out of Hollywood this season, "The Kid from Spain" comes to the Majestic Theatre on Monday, August 28. It is the annual screen song-and-dance comedy of Eddie Cantor succeeding his "Palmy Days" of last season ia.nd "Whoopee" of the year before. Eddie makes but one picture a year saving his energy, his voice and -7

his laughs for a single big effort. "The Kid from Spain" is the story of a button-eyed lad, who, getting kicked out of school with his roommate for suspicious goings-on in a girl's dormitory, gets involved in a bank robbery iand escapes to Mexico disguised as Don Sebastian II, the famous bullfighter. He accepts the acclaim of a great fete in his honour trying desperately to maintain his masquenade into thei arena to fight the four bulls in the thrilling climax of the picture. Goldwyn went to great pains to make the arena and its atmosphere authentic Bulls were brought from Mexico and a hundred experts of one kind or another put it into operation. Sidney Franklin, the world's greatest bullfighter, appears in the picture under his own name at the head of the procession of matadors, and later! in an exhibition of his sport. For the beauty and colour of the arena iand for the gala fiesta that

precedes it, Goldwyn marshalled together 76 of the proudest beauties of the world, the most beautiful girls this side of heaven. Song, dance, music as well as laughter bring them into the picture and take them out. Eddie Cantor's songs get their refrain from the effervescent, bouncing comedienne, Lyda Roberti, who seconds his comedy through the story. Others in the cast are Rohert Young and Ruth Hall, John Miljan, Parroll Naish and Stanley Fields.