DAZZLING SCENES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 10

DAZZLING SCENES

I “THE GREAT ZIEGFELD” SPECTACLE AT MAJESTIC In “The Great Ziegfeld” which is to start its Wanganui season at (he Majestic Theatre to-day, j motion pictures have picked up ! the torch where the late Fiorenz | Ziegfeld laid it down and have succeeded in onUZiegielding the great Ziegfeld himself. “The Great Zeigfck.” is said lu possess everything that a great musical picture should have. It has, in the life of Ziegfeld, a most griping and perfect dramatic story. In its musical numbers, never before produced on such a scale of grandeur, it has many of the most dazzling scenes ever seen in pictures. In entertainment alone, it rates just about 100 per cent. First, there are William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, and Luise Rainer as Anna Held. Then there arc Virginia Bruce as Ziegfeld’s greatest, glorified Modern Girl, Frank Morgan as his rival producer, Nat Pendleton, as Sandow, Reginald Owen as Ziegfeld’s manager, Fannie Brice as herself, Ray Bolger and his amazing dancing feet, Harriet Hoctor, a id hordes of the most beautiful girls ever to srnile at an audience from Inc screen The story opens in Ziegfeld’s youth in the dazzling Chicago World .5 F?.ir of 1893. It progresses as Ziegfeld himself progressed, amassing fortunes, .to lose them and build other fortunes. But always in the foreground are the spectacular Ziegfeld productions ano his amazingly beautiful showgirls. The dance numbers never before have been equalled. The direction cf Robert Z. Leonard places him among the kings of directors and the photography by Ollie Marsh and George Folsey is a pictorial masterpiece. Wesley (“Freckles’) Barry, currently featured in “Lady be Careful,’’ is one of the few players to survive early fame as a child star in pictures.