REX THEATRE.
Tomorrow's Programme,
Irving Berlin's new songs, Son] a Henie's sunny brilliance, Tyrone Power's gay romancing, Rudy Vallee s singing, and Edna May Oliver's funone of the greatest combinations of talent ever gathered for one show, makes Irving Berlin's "Second Fiddle,' which opens at the Rex Theatre tomorrow, first-class entertainment. It is something new in screen fare and it is filled with romance, dazzling spectacle, fresh comedy, six new Berlin songs, and surprises galore, including sensational tangos on ice, snow rhumbas, ice ballets, and the new ballroom dance craze, the "Back to Back." Bearing evidences throughout of the magic touch of Darryl F. Zanuck, the screen play by Harry Tugend is a highly realistic story of filmdom's long search for a girl to play the heroine of a best-selling novel and what happens when she is found. A thrilling dramatic picture of trans-oceanic air service with, a glamorous romantic background, "China Clipper" will be the associate film. Pat O'Brien, Beverly Roberts, and Humphrey Bogart head the cast, ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 8
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168REX THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 8
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