ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 9, 8 December 1937, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

(METEOR THEATRE. “STARS OVER BROADWAY.” Jean Muir wants to /become an established movie singer. She revealed this while singing _ in a church choir for a special scene in “Stars Over Broadway,” the Warner Bros.’ production now showing_ at the. Meteor Theatre. “I’ve been taking singing lessons for nearly a year now,/’ 6aid the blonde movie star, “and I think I’m about ready to try a featured singing role.” Miss Muir, whose talents so far have boon devoted to straight dramatic work on .the New York stage and screen, makes her debut as a singer in “Stars Over Broadway,” singing one hymn. “I used to 6ing in a little church in Englewood, New Jersey, where I attended tho Dwight School,” admitted Jean. “I wasn't a soloist, but I did sing loud enough to make myself heard.” In the picture Miss Muir piays the role of an ambitious young singer -who meets Pat O’Brien and James Melton while awaiting to appear on an amateur radio tour. In order to convince Pat ho should manage her, she gets him to hear her singing in a church choir. Featured in the film with her are Pat O’Brien, James Melton. a New York radio star, Frank McHugh, Frank Fay and Jane Froman, another radio star from New York. Tho picture is a stirring comedy drama directed by William Keighley from the screen play by Jerry Wald and Julius J. Epstein, based on tho story by Mildred Cram.

REGENT THEATRE. “ANOTHER DAWN.” _ Going far afield for a picturesque setting for a movie, Warner Bros, this time chose Iraq (which used to be Arabia) as a locale. They placed a British garrison there, had its members surrounded by wild natives, and offered the problem of how the soldiers and their officers and wives were to be saved —if saved they .might be. “Another Dawn” is tho name of tho picture which screens to-night at the Regent. Add to that situation the fact that Kay Francis is the lady most chiefly concerned —and that tho two men who love her are Errol Flynn and lan Hunter —and both have a chance to save her and tho garrison—and you have tho ingredients, of real drama. It all makes a very thrilling movie, and preview experts have put. it *up to tho top of' the list among tho action and romance pictures of" tho year. Errol Flynn is said to surpass his performance in that history-making movie, “The Charge of tho Light Brigade.” And it' is said, too, that Hunter (once the idol of all the matinee girls in London) has the best opportunity that has come to him since the Wo-rne'rs imported him to play tho Duke of Athens in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” There arc mountains and deserts and a lot of fighting and some extremely daring aeroplane flying in “Another Dawn.” the producers declare. Also a stirring climax when the time comes for one or tho other of Miss Francis’s adorers to save the garrison. The man who directed “Tho Story of Louis Pasteur” and “The White Angel”—William Dioterie—guided the making of “Another Dawn.” Besides the three stars, .the cast includes such excellent players as Frieda Inescort, Herbert Mundin, Billy Bevan, Clyde Cook, Mary Forbes and G. P. Huntley, junr.