MAJESTIC THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 9

MAJESTIC THEATRE

“100 MEN AND A GIRL.” Deanna Durbin’s new picture “100 Men and a Girl,” is showing at the Majestic Theatre. The film presents Deanna Durbin as the little daughter of a slide-trombonist (Adolphe Menjou), who has been out of work lor years. Deanna decides to get her father and his pal Mischa Auer, joos by persuading Alice Brady and Eugene Pallette to sponsor an orchestra of 100 out-of-work musicians, with the famous conductor Leopold Stokowski leading them. Stokowski plays the part of himself in the film, and conducts his one-hundred-piece Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in world-famous music, while Deanna sings to their accompaniment “A Heart That’s Free,” liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody, and ‘Alleluia,” by Mozart. One of the greatest casts ever assembled for a picture includes Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert, Alma Kruger, Jack Smart, and Jed Prouty, with Leopold Stokowski conducting music from Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” Tschaikowsky’s Fifth Symphony,” Liszt's “Hungarian Rhapsody,” “Mozart’s Moete “Exultato Jubilate,” and Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The film was directed by Henry Koster, who directed “Three Smart Girls.”