PLAZA THEATRE
"DANCING PIRATE." Combining comedy, music, and dancing with the new full-colour technicolour, “Dancing Pirate" is screening at the Plaza Theatre, and presents the inimitable funning of Frank Morgan in a characterisation surpassing even his "Duke” in “The Affairs of Cellini,” together with a series of novel terpsichorean ensembles. The story is laid in Old Spanish California and features a hilarious succession of embarrassing situations encountered by a young Boston dancing master as he seeks to win love and conquer an amazing array of villains. Charles Collins, the screen's new dancing star, has Che title role, and co-featured is Steffi Duna, Luis Alberni, Victor Varconi, Jack La Rue, and Royal Cansino family, two score of expert Spanish dancers, and many other favourites round out the cast. The production presents many musical and terpsichorean novelties; beautiful Spanish dances performed by famous soloists and elaborate ensembles; also the pre-
sentation of a new dance rhythm, the Huapango, currently the rage throughout Mexico. Among the innovations in this Pioneer Pictures film are “imaginative colouring,” which represents Hollywood’s initial attempt to use colour as it has been employed for centuries by the greatest of painters, the complete synchronisation of colour, music, and dancing.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 247, 19 October 1936, Page 12
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200PLAZA THEATRE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 247, 19 October 1936, Page 12
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