AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1937, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

, EVERYBODY’S THEATRE. TO-N.IGHT AND THURSDAY. ' “BORN TO DANCE.” “Born to Dance.” currant attraction at the Princes,s r J heatrc, is the season’s most lavish potpourri ol music and dancing. The new musical extravaganza presents the dynamic Eleanor Powell as a- star and just about runs tpe entire gamut oi rhy.hm. Jn all, there are more than 250 dancers and jnore than 2U(J instrumentalists and singers in this new pi! id,notion with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, for several seasons Broadway s No. 1 tuuester and lyricist. Miss Powell, whose -'versatility and appealing personality won her stardom in a single pictme, “Broadway Melody of I“ : J6,’" introduces fourteen varieties of dance steps. In one number she does a medley of six different types of dancing in as many minutes. She even leads a 75-piece band -jyith taps and makes her twinkling toes compete with the drummer’s most expert rolls and beats. lu addition one dance group of 110 men does •a fast tempo routine which embraces the shuffle, truckin’, snake-hips, waltz, waltz clog, the strut, fa.st and slow buck, and wing military tap, the drag, foxyjtrOi with imaginary partners, and an. exceedingly, Cist straight tap. A topnotch song and dance .supporting cast features James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, Sid Silvers. 1* ranees Langford, Raymond Wallnirn, Alan pinch art and Buddy Ebsen.