"YOUNG PEOPLE "

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 107, 8 May 1941, Page 10

" YOUNG PEOPLE "

BRIGHT MUSICAL COMEDY

With rollicking entertainment as i'-? keynote. "Young People" has been cai.e>l Shirley Temple's inoct enjoyable picture. Jack Oakie and Charlotte Greenwood are co-staned with her in the Twentieth Ler.-tury-Fos ri!m which begins at the Century Theatre to-mr>irow. Joyfully mueicval. the new fiim a.jo boast* an unusrual story. CiuilotLe and Jack adopt Shirley, and though they achieve success with their vaudeville act. they decide to lethe on a New England farm. Their life in the small town is depicted as the nim moves swiftly towaids the etiiring conclusion. Included sre rive new and catchy tune?? by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. "Young People" is a show full of gay pood time?. Others featured in a fine supporting aie Arleen Whelan. George Montgomery and Kathleen Howard. Shirley has. probably, he; best i ole to date in this picture. She get* many opportunities to sing and dance in which ?he excels, a? always. .Tack Oakie is at hie funniest, and Charlotte Greenwood i? hilarious with her anzular antics. The five grand new songs with a s»eriets o: dances in this new film help to make "\o;in: People"' an outstandinz musical hit. A new team of eong writers —Mark Gordon and Harry Warren —was especially created to write the.»e hits for the picture. The fwncs aie. '"Fifth Avenue," , "I Wouldn't Take a Million." "Tra-!a-la-!a. -, "The Mason-Dixon Line" and the title tun?. 'Younz People." Allan Dwan directed from a eoreen plav by Edwin Blum an J Don Ettlinger. This entertainment m\> misos fun. laughs ami in general <i ro'.'.kking good time.