ANOTHER DOUBLE BILL

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 3

ANOTHER DOUBLE BILL

“Forty-second Street” and “ The Poor Rich.”

“ One Man’s Journey ” and “ Friday the 13th ” will be screened finally tomorrow night at the Crystal Palace Theatre.

A comedy, “ The Poor Rich,” and the fine musical film “ Forty-second Street ” will comprise the double-fea-ture programme at the Crystal Palace Theatre on Saturday. Two of America’s most capable gloom dispellers, Edward Everett Horton and Edna May Oliver, defeat Old Man Depression in “ The Poor Rich.” Assisting the stars in their diverting and nonsensical rqut of hard times is a cast which includes such well-known players as Andy Devine, Leila Hyams, Thelma Todd, Una O’Connor, John Miljan, E. E. Clive and Grant Mitchell. The story opens with Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood (Horton) and Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood (Edna May Oliver), helpless and penniless aristocrats,! arriving at their long-deserted family estate near Old Haven, Connecticut, Albert completing the journey in a rattletrap car and Harriet in a 1913 electric brougham towed behind a decrepit flivver. “ Forty-second Street,” a dramatic spectacle of the American theatre, carries a wonderful all-star cast of eleven, besides featured actors of note, a picked chorus of 150 beautiful girls and hundreds of “ extra ” players. The cast is headed bv Warner Baxter and Bebe Daniels. “ Forty-second Street ” is a show within* a show. It is the dramatic story of life backstage in a musical cornedv troupe, from the day the stars and chorus are chosen to the opening night. Box plans at the D.I.C.