MUSICAL OPERA.
"BALALAIKA" AT PLAZA. Blazing a musical trail from Petrograd to Paris over the strife-torn Russia of the Czars, the screen oporetta, "Balalaika," which will open at the Plaza Theatre, Stratford, to-day, presents Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey, Hollywood's newest singing star, in a thrilling, colourful and romantic musical drama. It tells a tale of romance between a Colonel of Cossacks and the daughtor of a revolutionist in the midst of social upheaval, and gives an opportunity for an cxpensive musical programme that ranges from Russian folk songs to a love song by Franz Lehar, comedy songs b.y Herbert Stothart, and even the operatic version of a RimskyKorsakoff ballet suite. "Balalaika" is based on the London stage musical success by Eric Maschwitz and is heralded as one of the most stirring and colourful music films of the year. J
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 4
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140MUSICAL OPERA. Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 4
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