POPULAR DANCERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 27 November 1936, Page 10

POPULAR DANCERS

ASTAIRE AND GINGER KOGERS [ HILARITY AT I’LAZ* That popular pair, Ginger Rog- | ers and Fred Astire, provide delightful entertainment for to- | night’s mid-night matinee at the Plaza Theatre in their sixth [ shared success, the U.K,0.-Radio film “Swing rime.” Unlike their former offerings, the 1 new picture has an intricately roman- ' : tic story and shows up Fred Astire i < as an actor of the first rank as well 1 as a dancing ace. Ginger Rogers | has already proved her histrionic .•' ability in “straight” roles. Both stars pursue the course of true love through lhe obstacles offered by a pair of rivals. Astaire is a cheerful gambler, nicknamed "Lucky” Garnett, 1 trying to earn 20,000 dollars in order to marry his childhood sweetheart, but before he has been very long in New 7 ' York how not to earn 20,000 dollars is his big problem, for he meets Penny I Carroll (Ginger Rogers), a dancing | academy instructress, and becomes j her pupil. A glowering orchestra loader who intends to marry Penny himself brings complications which come thick and fast, especially when [Astaire arrives to find out what he ’is doing. All this is interwoven with . I (he most delightful humour and the catchiest song and dance . numbers ’ imaginable. A rfew comedy team in • Victor Moore and Helen Broderick, 5 are responsible for much of the enter- ’ tainment. Jerome Kern wrote the music of the “Swing Time” numbers. ' ’ 1 Fred Astaire goes blackface for the ’ electrifying negro number “Bojangles J of Harlem,” with a lavishly-dressed | j chorus, and performs a remarkable hand and tap dance. Ginger Rogers t wears some glamorous gowns and j . also dances delightfully. In a succession of beautiful sets, perhaps the ’ most striking is that of the snow scene in the Adirondack Mountains, where ; much of the action takes place, and I ’ where magnificent pine- cedar, and fir stand out against a background pf dazzling white.