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"DOWN ARGENTINE WAY" Boasting eight torrid songs, a 6000 mile whirlwind romance, a sensational new star, as well as two of the biggest names in movies, the greatest musical extravaganza of all? time opens at the Regent Theatre on Saturday. Ten months in production, 20th Century-Fox's Technicolour "Down Argentine Way" was conceived on a lavish scale far surpassing that studio's widely acclaimed! "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Don Ameche and Betty Grable are paired in this latest picture, while the sultry Carmen Miranda makes her screen debut, singing four of the distinctive songs that have made her famous on two Continents. In the planning and filming of "Down Argentine Way" many precedents were smashed and astounding studjo records Avere set. Geared to £he most exacting entertainment Tafcte, "Down Argentine Way" out-distance ed all other productions both in amount of time taken to complete and in distance covered.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 157, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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