REGENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 112, 14 May 1931, Page 11

REGENT

“HOLD EVERYTHING ” Winnie Lightner, the dynamic comedienne and star of “Hold Everything, ” whose voice and humorous antics have endeared her to the theatregoing public, states emphatically and with her customary verve that she thinks Joe Burke and Al Dubin are the only song writers for her. They wrote the musical score of the screen hit, “Gold Diggers of Broadway,” in which Winnie Lightner also sang several songs. They have so accurately learned the essence of AVinnie Lightner’s delightful personality that the songs they write for her seem to be a part of her. Moro than fifty songs were submitted to Miss Lightner before she found the two tliat she felt were the style of songs her audience expects of her. She sings these in “Hold Everything,” the musical comedy success of the stage which has boon adapted to the screen which is now showing at tho Regent Theatre. It was Joo Burke and Al Dubin who wrote the songs which Miss Lightner chose. They are “Isn’t This a Cock-eyed World” and “Physically Winnie Lightner says that those two songs are tho most ’tuneful humorous songs it has boon her pleasure to sing since her advent to the screen. The same composers wrote those famous songs, “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine,” two numbers that wore among 'rhe outstanding hits of 1929.