AMUSEMENTS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 263, 9 December 1930, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

HASTINGS PICTURE TIIEATEES. TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMMES. Eive lilting love songs from the golaen throat of America's newest idol Rudy Vallee ! Saxophone and ciarmet solos by tlre same master of these two instriiments'! A complete coloiirfiil orchestral hacbgroimd by the Connecticut Yankees, who, under Vai ee.s leadership, have charmed the world. Such is the extravagant mtisical testival offered patrons at the i?Sy rheatre, wbere Radio Pictures' all-talking fihn, "The Vagabond Lover, is now packing the house. Ihe songs, wliich will he crooned from the , screen hy Vallee are, "I Love yR}b'' "I'll Be Reminded of You," If You Were the Only Girl and I were the Orily Boy," "A Little Kiss Each Mornmg, a Little Kiss Each Night," and "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover." _ The selections were made hy Rudy liimself, who inspected more than 2(10 songs for his screen debut. JVlarshall Neilan, the director, with a colonrful story hased 011 incidents in Rudy Vallee \s Ijt'e, has produced one of the most lavisll musieal shows ever seen 011 the screen. The first lialf of the hill is "Second Wife," a society drama with Conrad Nagel and Lila Lee.

AT THE MFNICIPAL. Something new in Westerns— a talkie in wliich every ineh of film was actually made "oji "location" at the ' exact scenes of the story along the Rio Virgin in soutli-western Utah — is at the Municipal Theatre. "The Arizona Kid" is the picture in question and it is a signal triumpli for everyone concerned, including the cast-, the director and the author. Warner Baxter, who created history with his role of "The Oisccs Kid" in "In Old Arizona," again plays _ the dashing, dehonair handit, hut in a story of wider sweep and against more spectacular bacltgrounds thaii the earlier film afforded and the captiyating Alona Maris, the heroine _ of "Romance of Rio Grande" with this same leading man and director, has a role worthy of her unusual talents in the current production.