PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 158, 6 July 1934, Page 10

PLAZA THEATRE

• • SUCH WOMEN ARE DANGEROUS.” “Such Women are Dangerous,” a comedy-drama starring Warner Baxter, shows finally to-day at Plaza Theatre. The film combines romance, intrigue and mystery, and presents Baxter in a role that is ideally suited to his personality. Baxter finds ‘himself the target of the love-making of three charming femin- | ine stars, Rosemary Ames, Rochelle | Hudson and Mona Barrie. Baxter, as i a handsome bachelor-novelist, is the admiration of nine million women renders, but three women are directly concerned with his private life. One of them, his secretary, seeks to protect him from the love of a young girl who aims to marry him. and also a married opera singer who is madly infatuated with him. The young girl commits suicide and the novelist is accused of the murder. It is reported that the humorous and exciting developments through which the novelist is extricated from this unfortunate situation provides a I thoroughly amusing and interesting climax to the story. “Flying Down To Rio.” The brilliant musical extravaganza' “Flying Down to Rio,” with Dolores Del Rio, Raoul Roulien, and Fred Astaire in the leading roles, comes to the Plaza Theatre to-morrow. The story opens with a handsome young song-composer flying about the country , seeking a quiet spot to compose numI bers for his band. He takes his band I by air to Rio de Janeiro, where he has < been given an important engagement |at a big hotel, and whilst there he /falls in love with the owner’s j daughter. Rivalry springs up between I himself and a handsome Brazilian, and I they stage a musical duel, in which j native and American melodies vie for | supremacy. Finally his rival attempts to break up the American’s romance by procuring an injunction against the | production of his show, and the young fellow decides to stage his performance •in the air. The effects in this scene are I nothing short of marvellous. Occupy- . iug an immense sound stage, covering I approximately 22,500 square feet of floor space, it features such startling things as tables resembling the tail i ends of airplanes, white marble fuselage tapering down to the rudder and elevator, which are made of plateglass, | lined with polished silver, and a tete-a-tete nook for couples seeking privacy, which hangs in the air at one side of the dance oor and resembles the cabin of a giant dirigible. The whole affair carries out the dirigible idea. The roof is supported not by pillars but by girders built like the latticed frame skeleton of the lighter-than-air craft. The most notable innovation, however, is a “flying orchestra.” By a clever arrangement of concealed and silentlyoperated tracks, the band in this rej markable club performs in a huge balloon basket soaring above the heads of ! diners and dancers. The set, referred to in the film as the “Aviators’ Club,” carries out the theme of the production itself, the first aerial musicale ever staged. It reaches a climax in a spectacular all-air show, 100 beautiful girls, singing and dancing on the wings of giant airplanes as they soar over beautiful Rio de Janeiro. A strong supporting programme is shown.