"CURLY TOP"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22809, 19 February 1936, Page 5

"CURLY TOP"

SHIRLEY TEMPLE FOR STATE Shirley Temple seems to have no limit to her resources for winning and holding audiences. In one picture she dances, in another she sings; in some pictures she tups at the heart strings of her audience, and in still others she sends them home laughing at her comedy antics. Her latest starring picture, "Curly Top/' which comes to the State Theatre to-day, is said to combine ail of Shirley Temple's many talents and adds still another. Shirley sings, dances, laughs—and plays Cupid in bringing sweethearts together. " Curly Top " opens with scenes in an orphanage where Shirley is an irresponsible youngster, forever getting into trouble and forever laughing herself out of it. John Boles, the millionaire patron of the orphanage, adopts the child, who has won his heart with her gaiety and wholesomeness. But he also has to adopt her pet pony, her duck, and her lovely grown sister, Rochelle Hudson, in the bargain. The ensuing scenes of the film show how a romance grows up between John Boles and Miss Hudson and reaches its happy climax. And, when rifts or misunderstandings threaten, it is always Shirley who heals the breach. Five sparkling tunes, with music by Ray Henderson, were especially written for Shirley and the other members of the cast. Chief among them are " When I Grow Up," "The Simple Things in Life," and Shirley's own tune, "Animal Crackers in My Soup."