“CAT AND THE FIDDLE.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 3

“CAT AND THE FIDDLE.”

Delightful Musical Picture for Regent.

Flying Down to Rio” will conclude its season at the Regent Theatre tonight.

A romantic story, rippling with music and song, is told in a delight ful way in “The Cat and the Fiddle,’ a musical picture of outstanding merit, which comes to the Regent Theatre to-morrow. Most memorable of all are the scenes in technicolour, showing the climax to adventures in love between a girl with a talent for music and a young composer. Against changing backgrounds of exceptional beauty. Jeanette MacDonald and Ramon Novarro, who arc the lovers of the piece, are seen in a stage environment which easily transforms the stormy adventures of life and love into a heaven of happiness. The path that leads to this delightful ending is a tortuous one; yet there is melody and good fun all along it. The singing and acting of the two stars make it a convivial piece of levity. Most of the action occurs in Paris and Brussels, and it is in a narrow Brussels street, amid quaint surroundings, that Ramon Novarro, as a student and composer with an empty purse, meets a charming girl, who, like him, is studying music. His first encounter with her, when he suddenly jumps into her cab, sets the pace of the story. The song “hits” are of the popular type and include half a dozen which linger in the memory. Box plans at the D.I.C.