MERRY WITH MUSIC

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32430, 12 May 1944, Page 5

MERRY WITH MUSIC

“ SEVEN SWEETHEARTS ” PROGRAMME AT REGENT PICTURESQUE BACKGROUND Seven of the screen’s prettiest and most promising starlets grace the engaging “Seven Sweethearts,” which will show at the Regent Theatre Saturday and Monday. Kathryn Grayson as 'Billie, one of seven lovely daughters who operate an hotel for their eccentric Dutch father, is appealing. Her dramatic voice is heard in two numbers written especially for the picture: “Little Tingle-Tangle Toes” and “You and the Waltz and I.” Van Heflin in the role of Henry, brash newspaperman covering a tulip festival in the quaint Dutch village of Little Delft, Michigan, brings another of his vigorous characterisations to the screen. In contrast to his part in “Johnny Eager,” Heflin plays

Henry with gaiety and charm and his love scenes with Kathryn Grayson are remarkably tender. Marsha Hunt, portraying the eldest daughter Regina, a spoiled and stage-struck beauty who tricks Henry into a false elopement, handles her role convincingly. Cecilia Parker, Frances Raeburn, Dorothy Morris, Frances Rafferty, and Peggy Moran, the five remaining sisters, bring freshness and vitality to a piquant story. The able supporting cast includes S. Z. Sakall, Isobel Elsom, Diana Lewis, Lewis Howard., Carl Esmond' and Louise Beavers. TO-NIGHT ONLY DOUBLE FEATURE “Escape From Crime” and “City Without Men” will show to-night only at the Regent Theatre.