"TOP HAT."

Evening Post, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 6

"TOP HAT."

Opening at the State.

When it comes to romancing, there's nothing conventional about Fred AsUire and Ginger Bogersta their new RKO Radio musical film lop mi, Sh opens tomorrow at the . State Theatre Not only does.Astaire do most of his love making with song ™l dance, but he chooses the romantic gradota instead of the prosaic automobile as a vehicle m which to lake Miss Rogers riding in the moonlight, in fact there is said to be nothing conventional about the entire picture, which features the first complete screen musical score ever written by Irving Berlin From the, opening scene to the final fadeout," it is a series o£ romantic, melodic, and hilarious surprises. Astaire dances two versions S "No Strings," a" novelty jap dance he does a solo specialty. 'Top Hat, with a chorus of swagger young men; he sings "Cheek to Cheek" and dances it with Ginger Rogers; he sings "Isn t This a Lovely Day?" and dances it with Miss Rogers; and the two dance the big climactic number, the Piccolino" with a chorus of sixty. Edward Everett Horton, Helen Brodenck, Erik Rhodes, and Eric Blore head the sup-porting-case. Mark Sandnch. of 'The Gay Divorcee" fame, directed.