TOWN HALL TALKIES

Patea Mail, 9 March 1936, Page 4

TOWN HALL TALKIES

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AT . S P.M.—MATINEE WEDNESDAY, 2,IS—SHIRLEY TEMPLE IN “CURLY TOP."

Shirley Temple scorns to have no limit to her resources for winning and holding, .audiences. In one picture she dances, in another she sings; in. sonic pictures she tugs at the heart strings of ■ hep audience, and in still-others she semis them homo roaring at her comedy antics., Bui-her newest starring picture, “Curly Top," which comes to the Town Hull on Tuesday, combines all of Shirley Temple’s many talents and adds still another. Shirley sings, dances, laughs, and plays Cupid in bringing sweethearts together, ‘f Curly Top" opens with scenes in an orphanage where Bhirloy .is the irrepressible cut-up, 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 wholosomeness. 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 roaches its happy climax. And, when rifts or misunderstandings threaten, it’s always Bhirloy who heals the breach. Five sparkling tunes, all with music by the versatile Ray .Henderson, were especially written, for oliß'ley and the 'Other members of the mst. Upplan them are. “When I '.’row “The Simple Things In Life," and Bhiriey’s own tunc, “Animal Crackers in My Soup." Jane Darnell and Esther Dale are prominent in the .supporting cast of “Curly top," which was directed by Irving Cummings.