EDDIE CANTOR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13371, 26 September 1936, Page 5

EDDIE CANTOR.

IN “STRIKE ME PINK.” Eddie Cantor is let loose in a gigantic amusement park in ‘‘Strike Me Pink,” his sixth annual musical extravaganza for Samuel Goldwyn which comes to the King’s Theatre to-night. Eddie is cast as a timid fellow who takes a correspondence course in acquiring a dominating personality and becomes manager of Dreamland Amusement Park. Here he becomes involved with a gang of slot machine racketeers who have put every previous manager on flu* spot. The gangsters learn that Eddie secretly adores a glamorous night club star, played by Ethel Merman. This lady is really the wife of one of their number and they us© her as a “come-on ’ to trick Eddie Into installing their fake slot machines. Sally Eilers, seen as Eddie’s Dreamland sweetheart; Harry Parke, better known as the Greek dialectician Parkyakarkus of radio fame; William Frawley and the 1936 crop of Goldwyn girls are featured beside Ethel Merman in the comedy which Norman Taurog directed. Also prominent in the cast are Helen Lowell, Gordon Jones, Brian Donlevy, Jack La Rue, Sunnie O’Dea and Rita Rio. “Strike Mo Pink?” is based on Clarence Budington Kelland's Saturday Evening Post story and novel. “Dreamland.'’ Frank Butler, Walter De Leon and Francis Martin collaborated on the adaptation and screen play. Harold Arlen and Lew Brown wrote the music and lyrics and Robert Alton directed the dances and ensembles. The dance numbers were photographed by Gregg Toland. The tuneful now song hits introduced in the film include “First You Have Mo High. Then You Have Me Low.” “The Lady Dances,” “The Calabash Pipe” and “Shake It Off.”