REGENT TALKIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 2

REGENT TALKIES

I “SAILING ALONG” TO-NIGHT I Haunting iipav tunes, unusual rive'l settings, enthralling story, big danJ ensembles, five leading men mnj | new Jessie Matthews are the in-redi-l ents of the big new musical “SailiJ Along” at the Regent Theatre thiJ 'evening. Sonnie Hale was ~.S |Kll. | , sihle for the direction of this film I 1 which shows Jessie Matthews ,■>. t | l( | . adopted daughter of a bargee V J s Plies his way up and dm™ J Thames. Roland Young, an eccentric . millionaire, watches her terpsiclmreai efforts from the hank one dm, and r offers to sponsor her in a stage career. » Her resultant ardor is considerate dampened by Steve, the son of U foster father, but she nevcrthehJ seizes the opportunity and goes to London, where, after a series .if ventures, as amusing as they are complicated, she becomes a great star For the first time Jessie Matt hem is partnered by a dancer in hi- on ' light Jack Whiring. Barry Mae kay appears as a bargee’s soil. Ala- ; stair Sim has a big part as an artist ot peculiar habits— another example of the millionaire’s good-natured sponsorship. and Noel Madison forsakes the roles of a gangster to appear as ’ a high-speed Press agent. “Sailing • Along,” in addition, brings to the screen the River Thames in all it, aspects—London by night, the pie. ■ turesqne reaches near Oxford, and the Aveirs and the locks with which | the rreer abounds. “ROSALIE.” ; FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. H aile .<s as “big,” it is big, this Rosalie, M which will dance and sing its musical way into the hearts of patrons of the Regent on Friday and Saturday. Nelson Eddy and Eleanor PoAi-ell are teamed in this tuneful melange, Avhich varies in locale betiveen a football game, a military college, a transatlantic airplane, and the colorful mythical kingdom of “Romanza.” The pairing of Eddv and Miss Powell is a brilliant feat. Not only do they dance and sing in the manner of stars of their magnitude, but as lo\’ers they are decidedly in the top rank among romantic' team!, Those who thought they had seen tops ’ in immense movie sets when “The Great Ziegfeld” came to town, have something to think about when they see “Romanza,” the tremendous white and silver kingdom presided oA-er by Frank Morgan as a king Avith an eye for a pretty girl iid Edna May Oliver as a queen quite able to curb such tendencies. Morgan as ruler with ventriloquism as a hobby strikes a nerv high note in laughproducing gags. All of the music of the piece is tuneful and finely created, as one might expect after seeing that all are credited to the highly competent Cole Porter. Nelson' Eddy, in splendid voice, sings “Rosalie," “Who Knows” and “In the Still of the Night” as solos; and “It's ’,ll OA'er But the Shouting” and “To Love or Not to Love,” with the West Point football team. Frank Morgan, as the King, lias an amusing comedy song in “Why Should I Care,” and Miss Powell sings and taps beautifully, “I’ve a Strange New Rhythm in My Heart.” The ballet dance numbers staged by Albertina Ra-ch for the enormous Romanza sequences are in the best tradition of that grrtit ballet mistress. In fact, in extent they exceed anything she has ever done.