"MAD ABOUT MUSIC"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23131, 1 September 1938, Page 19

"MAD ABOUT MUSIC"

RETURN SEASON AT STRAND After a successful season of six weeks in Auckland some months ago tho New Universal production "Mad About Music" is to commence a return season at tho Strand Theatre to-morrow. Of outstanding interest is tho performance of tho young singer, Deanna Durbin, who will be remembered for her successes in earlier films from the same studio, "Three Smart Girls" and "100 Men and a Girl." Miss Durbin takes tho part of a fatherless child at a Swiss boarding school, ller companions are continually boasting of the exploits of their own parents so the girl invents a father of her own, and writes letters from him to herself. The fictitious parent is an intrepid big-game hunter and the other schoogirls are thrilled with accounts of his adventures in the jungle. In an effort to carry out the deception, the young girl adopts a travelling bachelor to pose as her father, and her new parent is forced to give an account of his exploits to an interested audience of schoolgirls. Eventually the girl's "father" meets her mother, who is a film actress, and she no longer has to worry about tho deception. In addition. the romantic comedy "Carnival Queen," in which Robert Wilcox and Dorothea Kent have the principal roles, will be presented. Interesting associate features will complete a most enjoyablo programme.