RECENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 9

RECENT THEATRE

"THREE CHEERS FOR LOVE” AND "GIRL OF THE OZARKS”

A gay, romantic musical, as fnmstepping as the "swing tunes” it features, is presented in "Three Cheers for Love,” Paramount show with Eleanor Whitney and Robert Cummings in leading roles coming today to the Regent Theatre. Miss Whitney and Cummings are aided by a cast of talented performers including Louis DaPron and Olympe Bradna, ace dancers; William Frawley and Roscoe Karns, in comedy roles; Veda Ann Borg, John Halliday, Elizabeth Patterson, Grace Bradley and Billy Lee. Eleanore is the pep-filled, tapdancing daughter of Halliday, a Hollywood movie producer. The life and problems of a small girl in a tiny Ozark mountain village, where the weekly clarion comes out "Thursday, or thereabouts,” and where a school board purchase of new books is exciting news, are dramatised in Paramount's "Girl of the Ozarks,” on the same programme. The picture brings to stardom for the first time Virginia Weidler, pig-tailed child actress who climbed to national favour in "Peter Ibbetson,” “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” "Laddie,” and other films. A romance with Leif Erikson and Elizabeth as principals is closely bound up with the fortunes of the mountain girl. Janet Young appears as the child's mother, broken and ill through the rigours of the mountain life. The movie gives a sincere picture of the life in one of America's few remaining real "backwoods” countries.