Star of “Top Hat” Returns In Musicale

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 65, 18 March 1936, Page 11

Star of “Top Hat” Returns In Musicale

GINGER ROGERS “IN PERSON” SINGS AND DANCES AGAIN

(State: Screening Saturday.)

Ginger Rogers, so well remembered. fcr lier role in “Top Hat,” returns to the screen, this time with George Brent, and sings and dances with, renewed delight and surpassing brilliancy. Affording' a complete scope for her capabilities, her new picture, “In Person,” is entertaining testimony to the versatility which has carried her so rapidly to solo stardom.

Portraying a vivacious, glamorous, and temperamental screen star whoso vocabulary' is led by the word “I,” Ginger receives the shock of her life when a handsome young man treats her like a spoilt brat instead of a pampered film celebrity. Ilis indifference only

serves to leavo her desperately in love with him. Now she invokes all her feminine charm and allure to touch o 9 a campaign to “get her man.” An unusual wedding in. the novel climax ends the robust and sophisticated comedy. George Brent, who was Garbo’s leading man in “The Painted Veil,” appears opposite Miss Rogers with Alan Mowbray, Grant .Mitchell and Sam Hinds portraying other important parts. The Rogers-Brent romantic antagonism is accorded musical accompaniment in three popular songs destined to become national hits. Prom the piano and pen, respectively, of Oscar Levant and Dorothy Fields, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” “Dont” Mention Love to Me,’/ and “Got a New Lease of Life,” employ Miss Rogers inimitable vocal and dancing talents. ■ “In Ferson,” RKO-Badio picture, boasts a distinguished authorship, having been penned by Samuel Hopkins Adams, writer of tlu prize-winning screen play of “It Happened One Night.” William Seiter directed from Mian Scott’s scenario.