MAYFAIR ATTRACTION.
"BROADWAY MELODY" CONTINUES. The spectacular musical production at the Mayfair Theatre is to continue screening until Friday night. The picture is "Broadway Melody of 1940," and a mere recital of what it has is more of a sincere recommendation for it than descriptive phrases. First, it teams Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell, world's greatest dancers in the masculine and feminine field. It has the personable George Murphy dancing with them. It includes Frank Morgan, and his comedy. It has beauty in Florence Rice and Lynne Carver. It has the likeable Ian Hunter. It includes a bevy of clever dancing girls. And that is not all. The music is by Cole Porter, who can rightfully claim the title, "Master Composer." He has written five new tunes and thrown in his sensational "Begin the Beguine," which the dancing stars do on mirrors. The picture has astoundingly colourful sets, one of which tops any ever built for a musical. It has a new kind of story for a musical. It boasts eye-filling costumes, which present Eleanor Powell as a new personality. The story has comedy and humanness, drama, thrills and amazing dancing. The whole production has been brilliantly decorated and produced on the grandest scale.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1940, Page 10
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204MAYFAIR ATTRACTION. Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1940, Page 10
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