ENTERTAINMENTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 240, 29 September 1930, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

MUSICAL COMEDY “HOLD EVERYTHING.’’ AT HASTINGS ON WEDNESDAY. “Hold Everything,” J. C. Williamson Ltd. current musical comedy success, which they will produce at tho Municipal Theatre, Hastings, on Wednesday next, for one night only, in conjunction with Richard White ad Eric Edgley, holds almost everything which goes to make an attractive musical, comedy. There are catchy melodies, amusing comedians, pretty girls, and one of the cleverest ballets produced by J. C. Williamson Limited. Everybody in the cast dances, and the diverting colourful show whirls along at a merry pace that banishes boredom. It also signalises the return of the very popular and- talented company who recently played “Love Lies” in Hastings, and there are no doubt many who will welcome the return of this happy company in what many eonside iis their best show to date. In

'Hold Everything” there is mure plot than usual. It concerns a fight lor a world’s boxing championship. "Sonny Jim ' Brooks is under instruction from lus managur to box, and not tight, his opponent. There are many complications, chiefly humorous, but eventually Sue Buike, ■‘Sonny’s" sweetheart, finds a way to niuke “Sonny Jim’’ fight. There are several interesting scenes appertaining to the training camp, and also a cleverly staged fight in the ring. Clem Dawe, once again, has a part that is so suited to his particular stylo Of comedy, and he undoubtedly makes the most of Ins opportunities in the role of Ginks Shiner, who is possibly the world’s worst boxer. His ring costume includes i icket pads to save his knees. He is always defeated, but is kept at the camp of “Sonny .Jim" as a mascot. In this ludicrous part Clem Dawe is just Clem Dawe, which is thoroughly satisfactory from the point of laughter. He injects into his work a spontaniety which is marvellous. Bobby Gordon aids and abets him. lie is the training camp’s cook, who conducts a private brewing plant as a side sline. When forced to drink some of his own beer he develops an affection for it that is permanent. Miss Betty Eley, as Sue Burke, is once more able to impart her delightful personality into this part. She has many opportunities to display her talent for dancing and singing.' One imagines that u great dent with be beard of the theme song, "You’re the Cream in My Coffee." which she sings with Mr Michael Cole. Katheline Stewart has a comedy part in Toots Breen and plays it on broad lines. Others in the cast are Marie Eaton, Mona Bailee, Dan Agar, Les White, Paul Plunket. The ballet, as in "Love Lies” and “So This is Love,” is very much to the fore, and there are very few moments when someone is not dancing One of the big features ot the first act is when the entire ballet and chorus do a remarkable staircase dance, while the speciality dance of Mona Zcppel and Will Delaney is worthy of great praise.. A full orchestra, under tho baton of Gregory Ivanoff. The box plan is now open at Fail’s.

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COSY DE LUXE. Visitors to the Cosy Theatre arc threatened with a surfeit of- merriment at “Rookery Nook.” It is a talking-fllm adaptation of a London farce comedy which ran for over 400 performances at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Ralph Lynn, Toni Walls. Winifred Shotter, Mary Brough and other members of the original cast appear in the production. In its film furm “Rookery Nook” is every bit as funny as the original, and tho chief “criticism” during the London mu of the film was that there were too mary laughs! The story runs that into Gerald Popkiss’ new house in the country comes a girl, one night, in pyjamas; she has been driven from home by her step-lather. Gerald’s sister-in-law is the local scandalmonger and Geraldefforts —with Ihe help of his cousin, Clive, and his brother-in-law, Harold—to hide tli(s fact that she has stayed the night leads to most complicated situations. MUNICIPAL. “Happy Days,” laughing, singing dancing marvel of the Fox Movietone «c. ecn with an all star cast recruited from both the stage and screen, not rnly boasts of a great number of song hits but there is a logical rcaron for their introduction. The musical numbers of “Happy Days,” together with their respective composers and the stars who sing the selections, arc “We’ll Buifd a Little M r ord of Our Own.” Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor; “'Mona,” Frank Richardson; ‘ ‘ Minstrel Memories, ’ ’ George MacFarlane; “Snake Hips,” Sharon Lynn and Ann Pennington; “Crazy Feet,” Dixie Lee; “I’m On a Diet of Love,” Marjorie White and Richard Keene; “Vic and Eddie ” Victor MeLaglen and Edmund Lowe; “A Toast to the Girl I Love,” J. Harold Murray; ‘ ‘ Happy Days ’ ’ “Whispering” Jack Smith; Grand Finale—“ Dream on a Piece of Mredding Cake.” Entire Company. In this show with a show, now at the Municipal Theatre, role are enacted by such famed entertainers as Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and countless others.