MAURICEVILLE TALKIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 7

MAURICEVILLE TALKIES

TOMORROW’S PROGRAMME. A romance that blossomed into the greatest dancing team the world has ever known underlies "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle,” in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are co-starred, will be screened at Mauriceville tomorrow night. The film deals with the real life career of Vernon and Irene Castle, who danced their way from obscurity to fame in a few brief years, and who created many of our finest ballroom dances. Covering lhe period from 1911, when Vernon Castle was a comedian on Broadway, u his untimely death in an airplane crash, the picture presents a panorama cf the pre-war days and a cavalcade of (he tunes of that era, along with the brilliant dance routines created and popularised by the dancing Castles. Going to Paris when Lew Fields scornfully told Vernon and Irene that "nobody would pay money to see a man c-.ance with his wife,” the then unknown pair nearly starved in the French capital before they got their start dancing in a Paris cafe. Within a few months they were the sensation ol Europe and America. With Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan and ether noted players, the picture is one of the most entertaining offering of the year. The twenty-four pre-war tunes include "Tipperary." "Keep the I-Jome Fires Burning" and “Missouri.”