ST. JAMES THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 5

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"100 Men and a Girl." Deanna Durbirrs new picture. "100 Men and a Girl." which commences at St. James Theatre on Friday, will be welcomed by Wellington picturegoers. for those thousands who heard this fourteen-year-old singer in her last picture, "Three Smart Girls," are still talking Deanna Durbin. "100 Men and a Girl" presents Deanna Durbin as the little daughter of a slide-trom-bonist (Adolphe Menjou), who has been out of work for years. Deanna decides to get her father and his pal, Mischa Auer. jobs by persuading Alice Brady and Eugene Pallette to sponsor an orchestra of one hundred out-of-work musicians, with the famous conductor Leopold Stokowski leading them. Stokowski plays the part of himself in the film, and conducts his one-hundred-piece Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in world-famous music, while Deanna sings to their accompaniment "A Heart That's Free." Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, and "Alleluia," by Mozart. One of the greatest casts ever assembled for a picture includes Adolphe Menjou. Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert, Alma Kruger, Jack Smart, Jed Prouty, Jameson Thomas. Howard Hickman, Christian Rub, Frank Jenks, Gerald Oliver Smith, and Jack Mulhall, with Leopold Stokowski conducting music from Wagner's "Lohengrin," Tschaikowsky's "Fifth Symphony," Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody," Mozart's Motet "Exultato Jubilate," and Verdi's "La Traviata." .The film was directed by Henry Koster, who directed "Three Smart Girls."