TIVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 111, 11 May 1940, Page 7

TIVOLI THEATRE.

"The Wizard of Oz."

Engineering and photographic problems never before encountered in a motion picture went into the filming of "The Wizard of Oz," hailed as Hollywood's most ambitious musical spectacle since "The Great Ziegfeld." The picture, 100 per cent, musical and filmed in Technicolor, opens on Tuesday at the Tivoli Theatre. Although set to music with catchy tunes and memorable lyrics, the story -is the same as Baum wrote it, which makes it ideal for children and adults alike. It tells of how Dorothy, a Kansas farm girl, goes to the Land of Oz. There she meets a Scarecrow who wants brains, Tin Woodman who wants a heart, and a Lion who wants courage. Dorothy, who has been running away from home to keep a mean school teacher from taking /her pet dog, is carried to Oz by a cyclone. Once in- Oz, she wants to get home. All set off to ask the Wizard for favours. After many exciting adventures, all three get what they wanted, by finding it was within their power all the time. "I Killed the Count," which will be the associate film, is the first film to give Syd Walker a part he can really get his teeth into. He plays the role of a detective inspector from Scotland Yard, who is faced with the embarrassing fact that there are three confessions to the murder he is investigating. Co-starring with Syd Walker is Ben Lyon, the popular American film star, who is as well known for his English vaudeville appearances and frequent broadcasts, as he is for the many American films in which he has starred. These two popular entertainers are not asked to carry the burden of supplying the entertainment of "I Killed the Count" alone, for they have been surrounded with a very talented and well-known cast.