FINE MUSICAL FILM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20476, 30 November 1934, Page 3

FINE MUSICAL FILM.

“20 Million Sweethearts” Starts To-morrow.

“ Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back,” starring the popular Ronald Colman, will conclude its successful run at the Plaza Theatre to-night. Outstanding supports complete the entertainment. It is not often these days that a musical film sends the audience away from the theatre whistling and humming after a screening, but that has been the experience with 44 Tw’enty Million Sweethearts ” in other centres, and it is likely to occur again when this Warner Brothers production opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. An unusually strong cast, with a wide variety of talents, was engaged by the studio for this picture. Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, both popular stars, have romantic roles as well as singing parts, and both are exceptionally well qualified, Powell having been a singer and orchestra leader for years before engaging in film work. Ginger Rogeis was formerly a favourite on the musical comedy stage. Others in the cast are Pat O’Brien, Allen Jenkins and Joseph Cawthorne, Jill comedians of different types. On<T of the big novelties of the picture is the appearance of the Four Mills Brothers and Ted Fio Rito and his band. 44 Twenty Million Sweethearts ” pictures the joys and tribulations, the glamour and romance in the lives of famous radio entertainers, as gathered from peeping behind the scenes. While there is a well-knit plot, with comedy and drama and romance intermingled, the show is enlivened by many musical numbers, both vocal and instrumental. A well-varied supporting programme will be headed by a charming musical novelty in technicolour, entitled “ Morocco .Nights.” Box plans at the D.I.C.