HUNTERVILLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 67, 21 March 1935, Page 10

HUNTERVILLE

ST. JAMES' THEATRE. “FASHIONS OP J934.-’’ One of the most colourful pictures to come from Hollywood in many a day is promised by the management with the showing of the First National production, “Fashions of 1934,” with William Powell in the stellar role at St. James’ Theatre, Hunterville, next Saturday, March 23. The picture is said to combine hilarious comedy with glamorous romance, and a mammoth spectacle, the latter staged by Busby Berkeley, the musical comedy director whose flair for the unique and bizarre is exemplified in the beautiful specialty numbers in “Footlight Parade,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “42nd Street,” and other pictures. The prize number in “Fashion sof 1934” is a most unusual spectacle in which 200 meautiful girls do a fan dance in rhythm to music furnished by a harp orchestra. One feature calculated to appeal especially to women is a gorgetous fashion show staged by Director William Dieterle. In a luxurious setting of a fashionable and exclusive Paris modiste shop more than a score of girls display the very latest 1934 styles in women’s evening gowns and wraps, sports suits, negligees an<l lingerie. These are but some of the special numbers seen in a picture that is basically comedy-drama in which William Powell, as a high pressure promoter. corners the Paris fashion market, and sots himself up as the king of fashions.