AMUSEMENTS.
THEATRE ROYAL. "THE BLUE DANUBE." What many good judges consider is quite the best British talkie of its kind yet screened in Christchurch is being presented at the Theatre Kdyal this week. The fijm is "The Blue Danube," the story of which has-been written around the famous waltz of the "same name, the composition j>f Johann Strauss. , Set in Hungary, ''The Blue Danube" introduces some beautiful views of Budapest and the surrounding countryside, and .tells a story of gipsy life in which Joseph Schild-. kraut is superb as the hero, and Dorothy Bouchier as the heroine, the other star being Brigitte Helm. „ . . , . t . „ The mueio of this great British production is outstanding, nothing like it having Previously been reproduced for the films, it is supplied principally by the Royal Hungarian Tzigane Band, whose playing of the famous to waltz and of the Hungarian Rhapsody is I something which will remain the standard g by which future orchestral work done for | the talkies will be judged. I
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 3
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