MAE WEST IN OPERA.
"NOW I'M A LADY" BLEND,
T-lig peculiar blend of low comedy and operatic singing is effected in the picture .Now Ini a Lady"— to be given initial Auckland release at the Majestic Theatre to-morrow—as only Mac West could do it. koven tall, dark and handsomes" succumb to the blonde star's charms in this film, but Paul Cavanagh, who heads trie supporting cast, is the only one whose aflection she reciprocates. Acting the role of a cattle baron's wid,ow, Mae West follows her man all over the American continents through Buenos Ayres. to the stronghold* of society at Southampton, where lie surrenders tq her. Ivan LebedefF, Tito Loral, Monroe Owsley, Gilbert Emery and Grant Withers furnish plenty of competition, but Cavanagh wins Miss West after she has been renovated into a lady. • ItVO1 t VO P°P" ] ar songs are featured—"Love is Love and "He's a Bad Man." But audiences will enjoy most Mae's rendering of the aria "My Heart at Thy Sweet X°, 1 m o ', om the opera "Samson, and Delilah.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 8
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175MAE WEST IN OPERA. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 8
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