OPERA HOUSE
The beloved and famous melodics that are America’s only real folk music, and the thrilling story of the man who wrote them, screens at the Opera House to-day in a mag* nificent Technicolour motion picture, 20t.h Century-Fox’s “Swanee River,” the story of Stephen C. Foster, the great American troubadour. One leaves the theatre with ears ringing with the melodies that seem to express the very heart of America—- “ The Old Folks at Home” (Swanee River), “Old Black Joe,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Do Camptown Races,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” “Ring, Ring de Banjo,” and “Oh! Susanna!” One loaves, too, with a sensation of having been thoroughly stirred and thrilled hy the romantic drama of Foster’s story-like life.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 3
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121OPERA HOUSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 3
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