ENTERTAINMENTS
i WHOOPEE. . TO-NIGHT, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. One of the great events of the picture year comes to the Empire Theatre this week, when "Whoopee," the Samuel Goldwyn-Florenz Zeigfeld musical riot, starring Eddie Cantor, makes its appearance. This famous pair of producers, kings of the screen and the stage respectively," have exhausted every angle of their art to make " Whoopee " memorable. The cost of the production, originally estimated at a million and a half dollars, was nearer the two million mark when shooting was completed The filming called for seventy-four changes of scenes, many of them taken in ' such world-famous natural beauty spots as Zion National Park, 522 changes of costume and scenes including four and e hundred people. Its cast includes not only Eddie Cantor, most famous of New York's comedians in his first full-length audible, picture, but also Eleanor Hunt, phe-** nomenal discovery of Samuel Gold- ,'! wyn's, Paul Gregory, Ethel Shut.ta, Chief Caupolican, Dorothy Knapp, and a host of glorified Ziegfeld beauties.
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3270, 10 March 1931, Page 5
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165ENTERTAINMENTS Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3270, 10 March 1931, Page 5
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