OPERA HOUSE
“DANCE, GIRL DANCE.” Many types of people associated with stage life make up the brilliantly instructive story by Vicki Baum in "Dance, Girl, Dance,” screening at the Opera House to-night. As a troupe of girls being trained for the ballet by an old theatrical stager, Maureen O’Hara fills an exacting role superbly. The troupe is “left flat” early in the plot, and the jobs go to the two best girls. Lucille Ban, vivacious and sophisticated, naturally gravitates to burlesque, and captures Broadway with a song and a parade which ends in her being artfuly disrobed by an electric fan blast. Maureen, whose classic dancing mises her market, acts as foil to Lucille, and serves a useful purpose by being howled down in a chaste number while the whirlwind Lucille gets her breath. Louis Hayward is a playboy, and it is when the racy blonde comedienne thinks that the chaste brunette has stolen her playboy that rouses the Irish blood with a slap, that the climax comes in a free for all on the stage. It is in court, when Maureen speaks her mind, that she attracts the ballet producer who makes all well.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 7
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195OPERA HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 7
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