" Every Night At Eight ” Heart-Warming Entertainment

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 11

" Every Night At Eight ” Heart-Warming Entertainment

KAFT REVEALS TALENT IN HILARIOUS MUSICAL

(Kosy: Screening to-day.)

Highly hilarious, with tuneful toe-tapping and an originality of story that is refreshing as an aircooled theatre on a sweltering summer day, “Every Night at Eight” proves to be as blues chasing, heart-warming a piece of funny business as has come along in a month of nrusical3.

The picture opens on a gay note with Frances Langford, Alice Faye and Patsy Kelly as three factory workers who lose their jobs through practicing harmony singing in the boss' oftize. Penniless, they try their luck as a singing trio on an amateur radio hour. At the radio station they lose the prize to George Kaft who appears this lime in a new kind of dramatic role, that of a conceited band leader. Attracted to the girls and seeing their possibilities, he starts them on their career as the Swanee Sisters. He builds them up to a trio of sweet, unsophisticated Southern girls, makes them dress alike, look alike, and in general manages their lives for them. Under Raft’s severe discipline they rise from their amateur standing to queens of the air waves. When Miss Langford believes that Raft does not return her love, she xobcls with the other two girls, deserts the nightly broadcast and goes off on a yachting party. A climax, packed with thrills, romance and action, brings the trio to their senses.

There are six outstanding song numbers featured in the picture, including “Then You’ve Never Been Blue,"

“Take It Easy,” "I Feel a Song Coming On” and "Speaking Confidentially.

Gaumont-British-Dominions has acquired George Bernard Shaw ’a “Pygmalion" the greatest of all his plays Leslie Howard will star in the production which is projected to cost one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. # It ii stated that Hollywood has tried time and again to secure the rights to his plays, but, Shaw has said that, if any films are to be made, he prefers they be made in England "where he can keep an eve on them."