TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3667, 13 February 1940, Page 4

TUDOR THEATRE

“SECOND FIDDLE” TONIGHT SONJA HENIE AND POWER One of the greatest 1 ' aggregations of screen, talent ever gathered for one show is included in “Second Fiddle,” which wilt be screened at the Tudor Theatre Ibnignt' and tomorrow. The picture stars/ Sbrijit* Henie and Tyrone Power; features Rudy Vallee and Edna May Oliver; introduces new-star Mary Healy; presents six brand new songs by Irving Berlin, and “ is -daziziirig” with Sonja Henie’s sensational lice tangos and snow rhumbas, which she performs with a skating' partner for the first time on fhe'screen. Sonja, a Minnesota schoolmarm and candidate No. 436 for the role of the heroine in the picturisation of a best-seller, gets the role and is brought to Hollywood by Publicity Man. Tyrone Power to make the picture. There, ‘ for purposes of publicity, Tyrone arranges a romance between the new find and Rudy Vallee, who plays a matinee idol. Here a John Alden-Miles Standish theme enters to complicate matters.

The whole thing is lavishly illustrated and high-lighted by the melodic new Berlin, numbers, which are: “I’m Sorry for Myself,” “An Old Fashioned Time Always is New,” “When Winter Comes,” “Song of the Metronome,” “I Poured My Heart into a Song” and “Back to Back.”