TOWN HALL TALKIES

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4326, 10 August 1937, Page 4

TOWN HALL TALKIES

STREET SINGER S SEEENADE.” SHOWING NEXT SATURDAY. “Street Singer's Serenade,” the Erst of tne Herbert Wilcox “World standard ” Productions, co-star ring Artnur Tracy, the wonder-voiced “Street Singer,” and Anna Neagle, which will be presented at the nown Hall next Saturday, has been rightly axiaimed “The Happiness Picture of IJJti.” During the latter days of production, director Herbert Wilcox had his company working spells of sixteen and eighteen hours on the complex and spectacular stage scenes which play uu important part in the development of tins delightful story—the first of its kind—of London’s real theatreland. These scenes were filmed not as production numbers in the musical extravaganza style, but as real stage scenes in order to preserve the actuality which is the keynote of the film, and to bring home to film-goers the thrill and glamour of London’s West End as intimately as American films have done with Broadway.

Not only were the scenes shot in the historic Lyceum Theatre, they were filmed with the Hippodrome chorus, under Ralph Reader, playing in his real life role of a dance director, and with Prank Boor, the Hippodrome manager, appearing in his own capacity, in addition to a number o'.' other West End celebrities. ' • Above all there is lovely Anna Neagle re-enacting the commencement of her own" career as a chorus girl, and throwing herself with tremendous zest into a role which means even more to her than any of her past successes, and displaying her versatility as an actress, as a singer, and as a dancer, while Arthur Tracy costars with her in Ms own worldfamous character of the “Street Sin-