AMUSEMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

EMBASSY ■ deli s'' tfu l picture, full of music, is Her Firet Romance." which began a season at the Embassy Theatre last night. J ?,. a st °ry of adolescent love treated in f .vyderella manner, modernised and i d With music, and presents Edith r ci lows, now grown up into young womanhood, in her first "grown-up" role, and also a singer. The picture also marks the film debut or Wilbur Evans, a fine concert baritone. Told with feeling, the picture, v iu n G f ne ' Stratt °ii Porter's "Her lathers Daughter. ' has charm, freshness and.poignancy. Adele Comandini havin" written an entirely new storv for the characters. Supporting Miss Fellows and bv-ans are Jacqueline Welte, as her conceited, selfish sister; Alan Ladd, Judith Linden. Roger Daniel. Marion Kerb-,-, Mario Dwycr OttTTa Nesmith. Rav Hirecli, Alexander Morland, Julie Sheldon and Jolin Adamson. The picture is extremely well directed, music, pathos and com*d'v beinc spaced with effectiveness. Mnsicallv the highlights of the film are the operatic duet from •'Don Giovanni," bv Wilbur h\ans a.nd Edith Fellows, and the solos by the two line vocalists.

The supporting film subjects are a whole entertainment on their own. Of more than special interest, particularly- at the £- cse )] fc , t ' mc - 's the latest "March of limo featuring the mobilisation of meu arms and machines in the United States. J Ins reveal* the great preparation for war that is being made by America. The other him* include a Pathe Pictorial, the ? e 7? S , crvi ? c > a short of Eddie Carro.l and his band, and the first of a dog. ••MlTnfMTFah" Ut a ma " and h ' B