PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“ROOM SERVICE” Sufficient as a tribute to the quality of the entertainment which begins a season at the Plaza Theatre to-day is the fact that the Marx brothers are the stars; «nd another insurance of a hilarious evening is that the show, “Room Service,” has been taken from one of the brightest and best stage plays presented on Broadway for several years. As the would-be producers of a show, the Marx brothers are ccncerned with the difficulty of keeping their company in a hotel without money and with producing the show while lacking the same important commodity. They are already 1200 dollars “in the rod” with their rent when the hotel superintendent arrives to check over the accounts; and the superintendent is not pleased. To prevent him from exercising bis authority, to eat, and to consider means of producing the show involve the brothers in rip-roaring scenes of the most farcical nature. Measles and a “stage” suicide on the night of the show are some of the tricks employed. The show can be recommended to all on its own account. '‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. ’ What must be regarded as the high -water mark in motion picture production is reached in the Walt Disney animated cartoon version '.f “Sm,v White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ which is to commence at three sessions- daily on Monday at the Plaza Theatre. From the background of sunshine, birds, forest animals, anci flowers against which the dainty figure of Snow White demurfly steps, to the grey, storm-shot scenes against which the wicked queen does her. tricks, the whole talc develops as a brilliant spectacle. Then there are the seven dwarfs. From the jolly old Doc, to the rubber-faced Dopey, they make an almost human appeal, with their irrepressible joyfulness and quaint antics. They are, indeed, a tonic. Even Grumphy, in spite of his rigid dislike of females, has a way with him, and life wouldn't hold much

fun for the little old men withoul Sneezy and his whirl-wind fits th< story perfectly.