KING'S THEATRE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13643, 30 August 1937, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE

FIN A LLY TO-NIG HT. In a production sweeping with song and scented with romance, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, those celebrated co-stars of “Naughty Marietta.” comes to the screen ot the King’s J heatre in the well-known characters of the light opera, “Rose Marie.” Under their magic spell the full beauty of “The Indian Love Call,” ■Rose Marie, I Love You,” “Song of the Mo unties,” and ether classics from the Herbert Stotbart-Rudolf Friml score, live again. More charming even than they were in the re-cord-breaking “Naughty Marietta.,” “Rose Marie” is a Metro-Gold wvnMayer triumph. Filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the moun.tainlike country of the Sieixa Nevadas. the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering peaks, dangerous passt?s, all the beauty of nature serves as background for the romantic saga of the Great Northwest. It. was given full benefit of Director W. S. Van Dyke’s proven talents, and magnificently mounted by Producer Hunt Stroirsberg, the successful collaborators of “Naughty Marietta.” “Rose Marie” is the story of a Canadian grand opera singer who travels incognito into the backwoods regions in search of her biother, a criminal from justice. Also searching for the brother is Sergeant Bruce o, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They meet and fall in love, until she realises the mission of the other. The crashing climax and poignant ending of the story will be remembered long after most pictures are forgotten. One of the outstanding sequences is the To tom Pole Indian Dance, the grotesque set mounted on a sandpit extending into a broad lake. Peopled by more than a thousand dancers, lavish in, costume, with music thrillingly beautiful, it sets a new high for effect yholography and spectacular direction. A strong supporting cast assists Miss MacDonald and Eddy in “Rose Marie,” among them being James Stewart as tho cdimiiial brother, Reginald Owen as the star’s manager, Allan. Jones who. scored so decisively in “A Night at tho Opera ,” George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O’C-oniior and Luc-ien Littlefield. Also present is Gilda Gray of “Follies” fame, whose new version of her celebrated “Shimmy” dance is one of the highlights of a striking cafe scene. Matinee 2 p.m. Monday.