KING’S THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12399, 12 November 1934, Page 6

KING’S THEATRE

LARGE AUDI ENCES. GREET ,‘CHU CHTN CHOW.”

For lour years continuously, in Loudon and for seasons extending into many months in tho capital cities of Australia and other countries of the Empire, tho stage • version of “CHu Chin Chow” enjoyed extraordinary popularity. It-,was the greatest musical play spectacle ever devised. But that it was capable of expansion of still, more spectacular presentation, and of amplification in story detail is l splendidly demonstrated by fill© Gaum out. British -screen version, which commenced to capacity houses at the Kin.g’is Theatre on Saturday Musical films -were never more popular H’.-i.n i they are today, but this rich Oriental story provides not only a feast for the eye, but an abundance of music far in advance of what is generallytermed “jazz” and that which is ordinarily served up in a revue. The “Chu Chin CTioav” choruses and solos are as seductive today as Avlien Frederic Norton first gave their attractions to music-lovers, Avliile, in the fidrn, their presentation is groat,ly enhanced by elaborate staging in an atmosphere of reailitem. Moreover all the Arabian Nights’ glamour of the original subject has been preserved Avith raro skill; but the tinsel ly pantomime effect lias been eliminated so that the characters arc flesh and blood portraits, rather than puppets of more or less fantastic origin. The production has been excellently cast, and every detail of the picture presents that polish and finish which picture-goers have come to expect.