ON THE SCREEN
MATAMATA REGENT “ Colleen,” the lavishly-produced musical comedy featuring Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell and 500 dancing girls, will have its final screening to-night (Monday). With screen innovations introduced in elaborate profusion, “ Dancing Pirate,” the first feature-length musical comedy-drama ever filmed in the new teehnicolour process, comes to the Regent this Tuesday« and Wednesday. The result is a production calculated to arouse world-wide interest, both as an entertainment and as a technical achievement. Among the innovations in this film is an idea termed “ imaginative colouring,” designed by Robert Edmond Jones, long regarded as the foremost authority in America on stage settings, colour and lighting effects. Another innovation is the complete synchronisation of colour, music ana dancing, by which colour schemes are employed to add symphonic harmony to spectacular terpsichorean ensembles. Charles Collins, the screen’s new dancing star, has the title role, and co-featured is Steffi Duna, Luis. Alerni, Victor Varconi, Jack La Rue, the Royal Cansino family and two score of expert Spanish dancers. J
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1791, 15 December 1936, Page 4
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