Big Double Star Programme at Strand.

Franklin Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 126, 2 November 1934, Page 4

Big Double Star Programme at Strand.

“TOO MUCH HARMONY.” AND “LOVE BIRDS”- COMEDY. Paramount’s “Too Much Harmony,” sensational musical comedy extravaganza currently playing at the Strand theatre, Pukekohe, lists a cast of favourite screen stars including Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Slceets Gallagher, -Judith Allen, Harry Green, Lilyan Tashman and Ned Sparks. The film, the third musical Crosby has appeared in for Paramount, reveals him as a musical comedy star who is engaged to the wrong girl, a scheming, golddigging blonde. He falls in love with another girl, campaigns for her behind and before the footlights and finally wins her after an amusing series of highly interesting sequences “‘Love Birds,” the supporting fea- J

ture, is the funniest picture in which Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts have ever appeared together. Imagine these two worthies, who detest the sight of each other, discovering that, they have both; bought the same ranch in California! And imagine their consternation when they discover that they are stranded on the property in the centre of a great sandy desert, miles off the travelled roads, and with neither water nor another dwelling (n sight;! . How a blow to Summerville’s jaw brings about a gold rush of wild -

eyed prospectors to the very ranch ir which both have sunk their savings, if only oriej of the uproariously funny Incidents?in -the story Ans the desert setting l Yn which much of. the story takes"’place furnishes a background of real charm and.beauty, rare in comedies. ~? j , /? A wealth : of featurettes, included the popular screen souvenirs, and two newsreels, including shots of the triumphant arrival of Jean Batten, at Sydney on her record-breaking flight from England.