EMPIRE

Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 16

EMPIRE

‘ Theodora Goes Wild,’ in which Irene Dunne shows her skill as an engaging if irresponsible comedienne, 'will conclude at the Empire to-night. The story is a very entertaining one, “relating the adventures of a small town girl who writes a book about the sort of life she longs to lead and then tries to live up to it. Melvyn Douglas plays opposite Miss Dunne as the artist who illustrates her book. ‘ROSE MARIE' TO-MORROW. After many months of aggravating delay, the film version of ‘ Rose Marie,’ With Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, will open its Dunedin season at the Empire to-morrow. One of the ■most valuable of theatrical properties, ‘ Rose Marie ’ has been known the World, over for more than a dozen years. And now it has been made into a talking picture. Furthermore, it Was filmed almost entirely out of doors, in the gorgeous mountain lake settings of the Sierra Nevadas. Such worldfamed songs as ‘ The Indian Love Call,’ ‘ Rose Mario,’ ‘ Song of the Mounties,’ and ‘ Pardon Me, Madame,’ are sung against the majesty of. glimmering lakes, tall pines, and superb mountain vistas. The Totem Pole number alone is claimed to set a new high standard in photographic beauty and screen entertainment. Filmed at Emerald Bay, on Lake Tahoe, scenic spot of America, peopled with more than 700 Indians in a setting of towering grotesque totems, it is as spectacular as it is rhythmic. Briefly, Rose Marie ’ is the story of an opera star who, travelling incognito through the North Woods in search of her brother, and outlaw, falls in love with the North-west “ Mountie ” whose inflexible job is to capture the criminal. The climax of the story is as dramatic as the finish is romantic.