REGENT TALKIES

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 12 May 1939, Page 3

REGENT TALKIES

DOUBLE BILL. TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW. Vocal coaches were busy during the filming of “Everybody Sing,” coming to the Regent Theatre for screenin': on Friday and Saturday, for in the picture everybody actually sings. Nine songs are featured. Allan Jones sings ’‘On With the Show,” “The One I Love” and Cosi Cosa.” Judy Garland sings “Swing Mr Mendelssohn,” “Down on Melody Farm,” “Sweet Chariot” and “I Wanna Swing.” Fanny Brice has a riotous comedy song in “Quainty, Dainty Me,” and the entire cast of principals, including Lynne Carver and Reginald Gardiner, join in the “Quartette from Rigoletto.” The story concerns a young girl who gets expelled from several schools because of her craze for swing singing. Her father is a playwright and her mother an actress. They’re a mad lot and without any financial sense. They send Judy to Europe, but she sneaks off the boat before it leaves and gets a job singing in a night club. Old New Orleans in its picturesque period after the acquisition of Louisiana from France by the United States forms the background for Luise Rainer’s most colorful costume role in “The Toy Wife,” the Anna Held of “The Great Ziegfeld,” and the Chinese peasant woman of “The Good Earth. ’ ’ Miss Rainer now turns to the plantation life of the old South as “Froufrou” Brigard, shallow and frivolous daughter of the French aristocracy. A story of the French aristocracy of Louisiana in the 1850’a, “The Toy Wife” stresses authenticity in all its backgrounds, every set having been copied from some historical original.