CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 17

CIVIC

"HAPPY DAYS" ON SATURDAY The current programme at the CivicTheatre will have its final presentation there this evening. This includes the dramatic talkie, “The Locked Door,” starring Barbara Stanwyck. Rod La Rocque, William Boyd, and Betty Bronson, also the accompanying programme of shorter items and music by Ted Henkel’s Civic Concert Orchestra, and by Fred Scholl at the grand organ. “Happy Lays,’* laughing, singing, dancing marvel of the Fox Movietone screen, with an all-star cast recruited from both the stage and screen, not only boasts of a great number of song hits, but there is a logical reason for their introduction. The musical numbers of “Happy Days,” together with their respective composers and the stars who sing the selections, are “We’ll Build a Little World of Our Own” (by Hanley and Brockman), Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor; “Mona” (by Conrad, Mitchell and Cottier), Frank Richardson; “Minstrel Memories” (by Gilbert and Baer), George MacFarlane; “Snake Hips” (by Conrad, Mitchell, and Cottier), Sharon Lynn and Ann Pennington; “Crazy Feet” (by Conrad, Mitchell, and Gottler), Dixie Lee: “I’m On a Diet of Love” (by Gilbert and Baer), Marjorie White and Richard Keene; “Vic and Eddie” (by Stoddard and Klauber), Victor McLaglen an Edmund Lowe; “A Toast to the Girl I Love” (by Hanley and Brockman), J. Harold Murray: “Happy Days” (by McCarthy and Hanley); “Whispering,” Jack Smith: grand finale, “Dream on a Piece of Wedding Cake” (by Hanley and Brockman), entire company. In this show within a show, coming to the Civic on Saturday, roles will be enacted by such famed entertainers as Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, and countless others. Benjamin Stoloff directed “Happy Days,” and Walter Catlett was in charge of stage direction. An equally brilliant supporting programme will also be presented.