“THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 5

“THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES”

Presenting a dazzling array of stars and a variety of talent that staggers the imagination, ..“The Goldwyn Follies,” the glorious Technicolor,? musical extravaganza which marks the first entertainment in Goldwyn’s 25 years of picture-making to carry the producer’s name, which comes to the State Theatre on Friday week, has been produced on a scale more lavish, more opulent and . more magnificent than anything the screen has ever known. Goldwyn invaded every field of entertainment to find stars to augment the screen cast headed by Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers and Andrea Leeds.

From radio he took Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, the comedy sensation of the world; Kenny Baker, Jack Benny’s silver-voiced romanticist; irrepressible Phil Baker and his accordion; from grand opera, Helen Jepson and the sensational newcomer. Charles Kullmann; from the world of the dance. Zorina and George Balanchine’s American Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera; and from musical comedy goggle-eyed Eobby Clark to I clown with Ella Began. \ I Then there are the hand-picked Gorgeous Goldwyn Girls as well as Hollywood’s 12 loveliest and most talented tap dancers; Jerome Cowen, Nydia Westman, Frank Shields and a hundred more who fit into the pattern of eno of Ben Hecht’s best stoi’ics—a comedy of Hollywood .which casts Menjeu as a film producer out of touch with his public; and Andrea Leeds as the typical .American girl whom he hires as “Miss Humanity” to keep him posted on what the public wants. ‘The Goldwyn Follies” boasts the last and perhaps greatest score written by the late George Gershwin, s'added with several very singable song hits, including Lave Walked In,” “I Was Doing All Right,” “I Love to Rhyme.” and "Lave is Here to Stay,” The lyrics arc by Ira Gershwin.