KING'S THEATRE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 3

KING'S THEATRE

"DANCING PIRATE" TOMORROW After an extended season, "The King Steps Out." in which Grace Moore and Frahchot Tone are starred, to-night closes its successful run at the King s Thea-lre. With screen, innovations introduced in elaborate profusion "Dancing Pirate," the first feature-length musical comedydrami filmed i" the new Teclmicolour process, begins at the King's Theatre tomorrow, 'tlie result is a production calculated to arouse world-wide interest,, both as an entertainment and as a, technical achievement. It is the entertainment, aspects of the picture which bids [or its greatest popularity, providing as it does'a lavish diverting show. However, the, pictorial advances revealed mark, a new milestone in cinema, art. Among the innovations in this Pioneer Picture-, film is an idea termed "imaginative colouring." designed by Robert Esmond Jones,'long regarded as the foremost authority in America on stage setting's, colour and lighting effects, in addition, the production boasts a fine featured cast, including!"the screen's new dancing star. Charles "Collins, from the New York and "London stage; Frank Morgan in the type of comedy lie handles best; Steffi Dunn, dynamic ingenue; Victor Varconi. Jack LaTJuc and the Royal Cansinos. and impressive dancing ensembles. The story deals wilh the hactic adventures of a young Boston dancing master, who is shanghaied for sea duty, captured by pirates, and finally landed oil the shore's of Spanish California, where he escapes.