MAURICEVILLE TALKIES
TOMORROW’S PROGRAMME. Lilting music, magnificent spectacles, rollicking comedy, romance and thrills combine to form the rare entertainment. found in "Cain and Mabel." which will be shown at Mauriceville tomorrow night. These ingredients, added to the fine performances of its two famous stars, Marion Davies and Clark Gable, and that of an exceptionally talented supporting cast, make this picture one of the outstanding screen productions of the year. One of the big features of the musical comedy is a sensational number called "Thousand Love Songs,” which for sheer beauty, novelty and magnitude of its scope, is truly remarkable. Miss Davies, with Charles Teske, the famous ballet dancer, as her partner, heads one hundred and sixty chorus girls in a series of intricate and spectacular dance routines. Still another magnificent number is the "Coney Island" specialty act. filled with song and dance and hilarious laughter. The plot carries more substance than that of the usual musical comedy. The romance is woven about Miss Davies as a beau-1 tifui waitress who rises to stardom on I the musical comedy stage and Gable | as an heroic youth who battles hi. 1 way: t.j fame in the prize ring.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 7
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