SHIRLEY TEMPLE AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1935, Page 8

SHIRLEY TEMPLE AGAIN.

IN "CURLY TOP" FOR CIVIC. Shirley Temple seems to have no limit to her resources for winning and holding audiences. In one picture she dances, in another ehes sings; in some pictures she tugs at the heart strings of her audience, and in still others she sends them home roaring at her comic antics. But her newest starring picture, "Curly Top," which comes to the Civic Thfeatre on. Friday, combines all of Shirley's many talents and adds yet another. She sings, dances, laughs — and plays Cupid in bringing sweethearts to-gether.

"Curly Top" opens in an orphanage, with Shirley for ever getting into trouble and laughing herself out of it. John Boles, the millionaire patron of the orphanage, adopts the child, who has won his heart with her gaiety and the appeal that theatre-goers knew so well. But he also has to adopt her pet pony, her duck and her lovely grown sister, Rochelle Hudson, into the bargain. Romance grows up between Boles and Miss Hudson ■ and reaches a' happy climax.

There are five tunes by TedKoehler and Ray Henderson in this film. Shirley gracefully executes intricate dance routines and sings "When I Grow Up" and "Animal Crackers In My Soup." Ofcer songs, given by Boles and Miss Hudson, are "It's All So New to Me" and "The Simple TV"™ in Life."