CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 884, 30 January 1930, Page 16

CIVIC

TALKIES, MUSIC, DANCING Take a tip and go early to the Civic Theatre if you want a seat for the screen’s first Viennese romance, “Married in Hollywood,” which has been playing to capacity houses all week. That’s how good this Fox Movietone dancing and singing show is. _ . , . With its opening scenes laid in romantic Vienna, the middle aboard a giant Atlantic liner, and the conclusion amid the sun arcs of Hollywood, the picture has an international flavour of setting which is faithfully carried out in the splendid cast. The unique story and the marvellous musical numbers are from the pens of those two noted composers, Oscar Straus and Have Stamper. . , ~ Norma Terris and J. Harold Murray play the leading roles of an American opera singer and a Balkan prince, and for the first time reveal their glorious voices on the screen—an event that alone is worth the price of admission. Tom Patricola, Walter Catlett, Lelia Karnelly, John Garrick and other celebrities have important parts, and a chorus of 160 singers furnishes a gorgeous harmonic' background. Then there is the splendid all-round programme for which the Civic is famous. This week’s programme could almost be called a song festival, for it includes a number of popular and classical pieces, both by Fred SchoL at the Civic grand organ, and by Ted Henkel and his talented Civic Symphony Orchestra of 30 players—a treat in itself. . ... “Jazz Town” is the setting for this week’s stage band presentation. There are many intriguing dances by the Civic ballet, two or three individual solo items and a particularly clever selection by Ted Henkel’s Stage Band. A Fox Movietone News and a film dealing with the songs of the negroes complete the entertainment.