FOUR MARX BROTHERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 10

FOUR MARX BROTHERS

“A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.” The latest production featuring the Marx brothers, “A Plight at the Opera,' will commence at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday of next week. Groucho, Chico and Harpo prove them- | selves as versatile and amusing a team of comedians as ever appeared on the I srren in this hilarious excursion into I the world of farce. The brothers’ mission in the story, to bring together t’.\o voting people with ambitions in the operatic line, is merely the excuse ier a wealth of incomparable houmour in • expression antics and conversation. ' Apart from the comedians’ part there I is a musical side to the picture which offsets admirably the comic elements. | selection from A erdi s “11 Trovatore” being included in the score. Kittv Carlisle and Alan Jones are entrusted with a pleasing romantic I theme. i Le Roy Prinz. Paramount dance I director, has been at that studio for three years and refuses to sign a coa-

New Tunes. ♦Seven new songs, besides the already famous “The Music Goes ’Round an 1 Around.” are heard in Columbia’s “The Music Goes ’Round,” with Harry .Richman, Rochelle Hudson, Edward Earley ami Michael Riley, tiie ’round ami ’round boys, Michael Bartlett and Walter Connolly in featured roles. “Rose Marie.” In a production full of song and romance. Jeanette MacDonald ami Nelson Eddy, the co-stars of “Naughty Marietta.” come to the screen in the well-known characters of the light opera “Rose Marie.” Under their magic >pell the beauty of * The Indian Love Call.” “Rose .Marie. I Love You,” “Song of the Mounl’es,” and other classics from the Herbert St rothart Rudolf i’riml score live again. “Rose Marie” is said tn he a triumph. Filmed almost entirely out of doous, in llie mountain lake country of the Sierra Nevadas, the production is a pictorial sensation. Glimmering lakes, towering peaks, dangerous passes, all the beauty of Nature, serves as a background for the romantic saga of the’great northwest. It was given full benefit of W. S. Van Dyke’s talents, and magnificently mounted by the producer, Hunt Stromberg, the successful collaborn >rs of “Naughty Marietta.”