ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 March 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TALKIE ATTRACTIONS OPERA HOUSE. ‘•TWENTY MILLION SWEETHEARTS” <• In “Twenty Million Sweethearts,” the First National radio romance which screens finally at the Opera House to-night, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers play opposite each other as a new romantic team, with Pat O’Brien in the leading comedy role. Ray Enright directed tho picture, which is a radio romance based on tho comedy drama by Paul Finder Moss and Jerry Wald. The catchy airs sung by Powell and Miss Rogers were written by Harry Warren and AJ Dubin.

An excellent supporting programme will also be presented.

“CHANGE OF HEART”

With Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell reunited for the first time in 18 months, “Change of Heart” is siu’o to be exceptionally interesting at tho Opera House to-morrow at 2 p.m. and 8 pan. James Dunn and Ginger Rogers are teamed in support of tho stars in the screen version of Kathleen Norris’ “Manhattan Love Song.” The picture deals with the tangled love affairs of four young college graduates who leave their Californian campus for the City in search of lame and fortune, only to find romance complicating the problem of earning their respective livelihoods. It is in these complications and their skilful unravelling that the appeal of the story lies, and the various situations offer Miss Gaynor and Farrell supreme opportunities of acting.

GRAND THEATRE “LOTS OF FUN” What the public wants more than anything else at the present moment is plenty of laughter/ plenty of song, and plenty of variety and novelty, in contrast to reality and morbidity, according to Rian James, novelist, columnist, scenarist and, more recently, associate producer in charge of Universal’s “Lots of Fun,” at the Grand Theatre finally to-night. James has concentrated all his efforts in incorporating the above attributes in the production, a screenplay dealing with the rise of an auctioneer to be the nation’s foremos* radio and screen reporter. One of his feats has been the assembling or the largest cast of radio, screen and stage stars ever presented in a motion picture, thus taking cate of the needed variety. •

For .music he has injected six songs, “Blue Sky Avenue,” “I. Ain’t Gonna Sin No More,” “To-morrow, Who Cares,” “Talking to Myself,” Somebody Looks Good to Me,” and “Don’t Let this Waltz Mean Goodbye,” all by famous writers, including Con Conrad and Albert Von Tilzer. Edmund Lowo and Gloria Stuart head an all-star cast.

“42nd STREET” Four special musical numbers that bid fair to become most popular hits are heard in the Warner Bros, production of “42nd Street,” an epic of backstage life. The songs were written by A 1 Dubin and Harry Warren, the well-known Broadway lyricists and composers and are entitled “I’m Young and Healthy,” “Shuffle off to Buffalo,” You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me,” and the title piece, “Forty Second Street.” They are sung by various members of the all-star cast, and the chorus of 150 beautiful girls in the gigantic musical spectacle around which the dramatic theme of the picture centres. The picture carries, a distinguished all-star cast, including, besides Miss Keeler, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ginger Rogers, George Brent, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ned Sparks and Allen Jenkins. “42nd Stx-eet” will screen at the Grand Theatre to-morrow and Friday.