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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11950, 22 May 1933, Page 7

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* MUSICAL COMEDY

if variety is the spice of life RKORadio Pictures’ all-star rollicking comedy. “Girl Crazy”, which ■opened at the Regent on Saturday, is " snappily seasoned entertainment disk It offers mirth and melody, romance and action, beauty and atmosphere. In the cast are comedy stars, a child prodigy, Broadway bounties, tiolywood cowboys, Mexican senopfas, two-gun men, and polished ’vdlaiiis. The action shifts iiom a tenement to a Western ranch and a Mexican. ,resort, and ranges from rip-roaring chases to rhythmic dances and tender love scenes. Heading the imposing army of talent are the inimitable ° Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsoy ■ who start the film as city men, and wind up as rough and ready Westerners. Eddie Quillan carries the romantic lead e! a girlcrazy youth who transforms a respectable ranch into a ‘•whoopee’’ resort. Mitzi Green, Hollywood’s child mimic ivouder, plays a pestiferous little sister, and tlm romance and beauty brigade h; headed by- Dorothy Led, Arline Judge, Kitty Kelly and Lit a Chevret. Stanley Fields anc' Chris Pin Martin play the shoot and run villains. The story deals with a girl-crazy youth who is sent to the quiet of a western yanch to cure him of liis weakness for beautiful women. Hie - imports a snappy jazz band, a bevy of Broadway beauties, dresses th e cowpunchers in dinner jackets, and turns the ranch into a pleasure l seeker’s paradise. There- ig an excellent supporting bill. Telephoned reserves should 'be collected by 7.30 p.m. . y p