"THE KID FROM SPAIN"

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 620, 26 August 1933, Page 2

"THE KID FROM SPAIN"

EDDIE. CANTOR'S THIRD GOLDWYN STARRING VEHICLEBETTER THAN "WHOOPEE." "The Kid from Spain," Eddie Cantor's third 'and best starring vehicie for Samuel Goldwyn, comes to the Majestic Theatre on Mopday and presents the popT.eyed^ comedian in what he .sincerely helieyes.is his greatest offering to the cause of amusement. ... .. . ...... This picture continues Cantor's plans with Goldwyn of one film .a ; year. Last year there was "Palmy Days," and the . season , before, "Whoopee," but, successful as . those, were, Eddie helieves he has more than topped them with "The Kid from Spain." In other words, this is Eddie's annual screen song-and-dapce comedy. It is the story of a buttonreyed lad, who, getting kicked out of school with his room-mate for suspicious goingson in a girls' dormitory, gets involved in a bank robbery and escapes to Mexico disguised as a promjnent bullfighter, there accepting the acclaim due to the man he is impersonating until forced to go into a real bullfight. Nonsense and song make up most of the picture and make of it a gay, romantic fable of love, shot through with dark, smiling eyes and matadors. The story itself is Eddie's own idea, but its elaboration was done by Mr. Goldwyn. He brought in William Anthony McGuire, Bert Kalmar and Harry Rughy to write the hook and music, and by so doing he got the story which he believed served the purpose. He made tests for seyeral weeks in the selection of his heroine, and he made other tests for other weeks in the choice of 76 beauties to serve as a background. There are three distinct divisions in that cast. Lyda Roberti, electric Broadway comedienne, plays opposite Cantor and serves as a remarkable butt for him, as well as singing three songs with him. Ruth Hail and Robert Young are the romantic leads, and there are all sorts of villains, inclnding John Miljan, Carroll Naish, Noak Beery and Staniey Fields. In fact, there's a fourth division, too, this being occupied entirely by Sidney Franklin, world famed bullfighter, who portrays the role of Sidney Franklin, world famed bullfighter. j Bull Fight Authentic. For the bullfighting sequenees, Mr. ( Goldwyn went to great pains to make the arena an authentic one. Bulls were imported from Mexico and a hundred experts of one kind or another put the arena into operation. And the result is one of the most ' beautiful and, at the' same time, the most authentic bullfight scenes ever brought to the screen.