AMUSEMENTS
EVERYBODY’S PICTUBES. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! "MERRY GO ROUND OF 1938. >' Enough talent to cast a half-dozen big Broadway ‘productions, with the 'accompanying inusic ; specialty numbers, dance offerings, settings, costumes, etc. is • offered in the streamlined farce' musical-comedy, “Merry-Go-ltound of 1938’’ which is showing at the PrincessTheatre to-night. Hollywood ) Broadwav and way points were apparently diligently combed for talent and novelties ’for this production. Mischa Auer, Alice Brady and. Louise Fazenda, enoUgb comedy talent - for three pictures, arc in featured roles. As if that were'not enough, Billy House; Jimipie Savo and Bert Lahr were imported •from Broadway, each of whom' is a stellar name in any man’s show. :A. feature novelty of the offering will bo little 38-pound, 4-year-old Beverley Ann Welch, youngest drummer girl in the world, in a unique specialty. Songs for the picture include two, “The Grand Street Comedy Four’’ and “Six of One and a Half Dozen of the* Other,’’’ which are rendered by Billy House, Mischa Auer, Jimmie Savo and Bert Lahr; “I’m in My Glory,’ and “More Power to You," which Miss Hodges siugs, the latter to the accompaniment of Dave Apollon’s orchestra ; “You’re My Dish,” by John King, and “A Masher is a Bad, Bad Boy,” with Alice Brady and Louise Fazenda.
. SUNDAY NIGHT Richard Dix and Fay Wray' in “ft Happened in Hollywood”. ’• MONDAY ONLY. “MADAME X.” The famous stage hit which has served as a t'iumphant vehicle for many of the .greatest, artists of the American, and European theatre, now comes to the screen in a new and' modernised, version, with Gladys George playing, the celebrated title role. Supporting Miss George in “Madame X” which is coming to the Princess on Monday only, are John Beal, Warren William, Reginald Owen, and William Henry.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1938, Page 3
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