AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12470, 3 October 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

The Regent “Rosalie” danced and sang its musical way on Saturday night at the Regent Theatre. Nelson Eddy and Eleanor PoAvell are co-starred and the locale varies betAveen a football game, a military college, a trans-Atlantic airplane, and the colourful mythical kingdom of “Romanza.” “Romanza” is a tremendous white and silver kingdom presided over by Frank Morgan as a king with an eye for a pretty girl and Edna May Oliver as a queen quite able to crub such tendencies. Morgan as ruler Avith ventriloquism as a hobby, strikes a new high not© in laugh-producing gags. Ray Bolger, is really great as comedy relief, and, of course, splendid in his comedy dancing specialities, Ilona Massey is a newcomer Avho. makes her American debut as the second lead of the picture in the part of Countess Brenda (confidante to the Princess Rosalie) not only proves herself a delightful comedienne, but a singer of Avide range. Nelson Eddy sings “Rosalie,” “Who Knows” and “In the Still of the Night,” as solos; and “It’s All OA'er But the Shouting” and "To Love or Not to LoA r e,” Avith the West Point football team. The ballet dance numbers staged by Albertina Rasch for the enormous Romanza sequences are in the best tradition of that great ballet mistress.