ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 29 November 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “THE SINGING MARINE.” A 1 Dubin and Ilarry Warren, famed movie songsmiths, started working as a team on “42nd Street” and have written over 100 movie song hits since—for all of the “Gold Diggers” • musicals, among others. Portly A 1 Dubin was born in Philadelphit, U.S.A., and once tended bar. When he was starting in Tin Pan Alley he would sell ordinary songs for a few dollars and then write English lyrics for such famous tunes as “Dark Eyes,” “La Golondrina,” and others. Then he became a mainstay in the song-writing world. He was in the first musical era in pictures (remember his “Tip-tot Through the Tulips” and “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine”?). Music man Harry Warren was born in Brooklyn, U.S.A. He played the piano in a Coney Island cafe. He gravitated to “Song Street” and worked there as a “plugger,” particularly on his own songs. He, too, has written hundreds of songs since his harpischord hammering at Coney Island. Broadway shows claimed him eventually and ho turned out revue numbers galore. When Warners bought . “42nd Street” they teamed the two writers for the first time. The rest is history, as far as Dubin and Warren and musical movies are concerned. During one year, 1935, their songs were played more than any others on the radio. They are attached to the Warner studio staff on regular contract. Their biggest assignment to date was writing songs for “The Singing Marine,” now at the Regent, “Cause My Baby Says It’s So,” “The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed, v “You Can’t Run Away From Love,” “The Marine Song,” “I Know Now,” and “Night Over Shanghai,” (lyrics written by Johnny Mercer) are the six hit tunes you'll hear in the picture. “The Singing Marine” screens at the Regent Theatre to-night. MAYFAIR THEATRE. “THE HAYSEEDS.” In many respects “The Hayseeds” at the Mayfair Theatre i to-night sets a new standard in entertainment, for it enters and exploits new fields. It combines mirth, melody, bullets, beauty and scenic splendour so skilfully, that all these delightful forms of entertainment become integral parts of the stoty You will heartily enjoy every moment of “The Hayseeds,” and the riotously funny family will convulse you.with laughter. The real fun starts when “Dad” decides that the whole “Hayseed” family should accompany Joe and his blushing bride. Pansy, to Sydney on their honeymoon. They become involved in all manner of trouble. They are almost run over every few minutes. Some of them get hopelessly lost and others spend hours searching for them, “Dad” is amazed at the stupidity of these “city coves.” Why, one fellow didn’t even know who. Mum was! and as “Dad,” remarked, “Where he canto from everybody for miles around knew Mum,” But in the midst of all their troubles and their perplexities they are genuinely impressed. Hyde Park “Dad” considers fo bo an excellent grazing paddock; while he can only wonder at the magnificent G.P.0.--“all built out of the sale of penny stamps!” as bo put it. And so the story of “The Hayseeds” goes on — laughs, laughs, and more laughs; “IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK.’ In “If You Could Only Cook,” also screening at the Mayfair Theatre, to-night Marshall is seen as a disgusted millionaire. Not disgusted because be doesn’t know what to do with his money, but because lie is about to marry a girl he doesn’t love and who doesn’t love him. And further, because his board of directors has been annoying him. Instead of getting drunk, be goes and sits in the park. Here he meets Miss Arthur, who is. scanning the want ads for a job. She mistakes lum for another unemployed member of society and invites him to go .with her to answer one for a married couple, a butler and a maid; Marshall, on the spur of the moments accepts, and off go the millionaire and the young lady and get the job. They find themselves working for a big-shot racketeer; Leo Carrillo plays tills role. And when both Marshall and Carrillo fall in love with Marshall’s “wife,” things happen, when Marshall has a previous commitment to marry a society girl on a fast-approaching date. From this point on, the talc is filled with complications that promise much in the way .of entertainment.