Gold Diggers in Paris (Warner Bros.) (1938)

(Lead) COLD DIGGERS IN PARIS’ COMING TO STRAND THEATRE The management of the Strand Theatre announces that it has been able to secure one of the earliest booking dates on “Gold Diggers in Paris,’’ the latest and most elaborate of the famous Warner Bros. musical series. The opening date has been set for next Friday, and plans are being made for a gala premiere. Especially notable because it brings Rudy Vallee back to the screen after an absence of three years, ‘Gold Diggers in Paris,” fifth in the “Gold Digger” series, has a poke full of nuggets in the form of laughs, catchy tunes, spectacular dancing numbers and, of course, pretty girls. Schnickel fritz Band Almost rivalling in importance the return of America’s prince charming of the air lanes is the film debut of Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band, a sextet of the maddest musicians that ever succeeded in wedding hilarious comedy to infectious music. These Schnickelfritzes are destined to be a riotous success on the screen. They can’t miss, for they've got something that no other comedy band has ever given the public — music. Funny as their comedy routines are and effective as their use of their many unorthodox instruments may be, they could dispense with all of that and still be a treat to listen to, for they make the most entrancing hot music of any outfit their size in the country today. Sharing the romantic interest with Rudy and also sharing the pleasant burden of singing several of the beautiful melodies which grace the score is Rosemary Lane. Gloria Dickson also has a large role as Rudy’s estranged wife. The comedians — enough of them to stock at least two such pictures with sure-fire laugh getters, are headed by Hugh “Wu Wu” Herbert, including also Allen Jenkins, Mabel Todd, Fritz Feld, Curt Bois, Ed Brophy and Melville Cooper. Berkeley Girls Finally, there is the large chorus of luscious beauties selected and trained by Busby Berkeley — the ‘Gold Digger Girls.”” The story revolves about a silly mistake which only a Hugh Herbert character could make — and he’s the one who makes it, when, as a representative of the Paris International Exposition sent to engage America’s foremost ballet troupe to take part in a contest at the exposition, he gets into the Club Ballé in New York, a very hotcha night club, and engages the equally hotcha chorus to represent America. The engagement, with the sizable advance payment, comes as a life-saver to Rudy Vallee and Allen Jenkins, who have been operating the club at a loss, and they permit themselves and their chorus — the Gold Digger girls, naturally — to be transported free to Paris. Here dangerous complications ensue when the true identity of the “‘ballet’’ troupe is disclosed, but everything ends happily when the chorus girls go on at the exposition, give the Parisians a pyrotechnic display of modern American chorus stuff instead of ballet. The performance of the American girls at the exposition constitutes the finale of the picture and it is a Berkeley number in the true tradition. MANIACS OF MELODY AND MIRTH, this coming "Gold Diggers In Paris."" Rudy Vallee and Rosemar of Hugh "Woo-woo" Herbert, while Allen Jenkins, (Advance) NEW MUSICAL HIT COMING TO STRAND “Gold Diggers in Paris,” the sixth of the famous musical comedy series, will have its (name of city) premiere on Friday at the Strand Theatre. Ray Enright and Busby Berkeley directed, and the musical numbers, which include “I Wanna Go Back to Bali,” “Day Dreaming,” “‘Stranger in Paree,’’ and ‘The Latin Quarter,”’ were supplied by tunesmiths Harry Warren, Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer. Rudy Vallee, crooning maestro of the airwaves, heads the cast and golden-voiced Rosemary Lane is featured opposite him, with Gloria Dickson doing a feminine menace. The Schnickelfritz Band, a specialty outfit that is taking the country by storm with their goofy antics, take care of the rhythm with Hugh Her bert, Allen Jenkins, Melville Cooper and Mabel Todd in charge of comedy. And _ then there are the Gold Diggers themselves, as luscious a group of chorines as Hollywood has to offer. Welded together by an hilarious story, “Gold Diggers in in Paris’’ promises the maximum in entertainment value. THEY'RE STRANGERS IN PAREE — Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, rhythm in the musical hit of 1938, Mat 103—I5c ROSEMARY LANE has the stellar feminine spot in "Gold Diggers In Paris,"" the new musical coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday. Mat 304—45c photomontage gives a rough idea of the fun and frolic of the forthy Lane may be seen giving out in song on either side Mabel Todd and the Schnickelfritz Band add to the confusion. (Advance) PICTURE DISPLAY ON GOLD DIGGERS Passers by the Strand Theatre today will have noticed the attractive display of still photographs showing scenes from “Gold Diggers in Paris’’ which is scheduled to open there on Friday. The photographs showing the stars — Rudy Vallee, Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band, Rosemary’ Lane, Gloria Dickson, and some of the beauties of the Busby Berkeley chorus line, give a bird’s eye view of the entertainment in store for patrons when they see the latest and most lavish of Warner Bros. musicals. Hit tunes, the elaborate production numbers for which the series is famous, an_ hilarious story that transports the golddigging gals from their native New York to gay Paree, are just a few of the features of ‘‘Gold Diggers in Paris.” Supplementing the stars are a great comedy cast which includes, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Mabel Todd, Melville Cooper, Edward Brophy, Kurt Bois and Fritz Feld. The finale, “Latin Quarter,” is said to be the feature of this newest musical. Allen Jenkins and Mabel Todd give out with "Gold Diggers In Paris" which will be the next attraction at the Strand Theatre. Mat 302—45c (Lead) RUDY INTRODUCES FOUR SONG HITS IN GOLD DIGGERS’ Three new songs by that expert pair of songsmiths, Harry Warren and Al Dubin, as well as another for which Johnny Mercer set the words to the Warren music, make their formal debut to the world of song in the Warner Bros. musical comedy, “Gold Diggers in Paris,’ which opens at the Strand Theatre next Friday. That each of the new songs will be a hit seems to be a foregone conclusion, not only because they represent a selection of the best recent work of a composer with a high percentage of successes and two famous lyricists but also because they will have the advantage of being introduced to the public through the medium of the voices of Rudy Vallee and Rosemary Lane. The first of the numbers which Vallee sings is “I Wanna Go Back to Bali’, by Warren and Dubin, and he is next heard in a duet with Miss Lane, the song being “‘Day Dreaming,”” by Warren and Mercer. The other two Warren and Dubin numbers are “Stranger in Paree’” and “The Latin Quarter,”’ the latter being the background tune for the spectacular finale of the picture. Both are sung by Vallee and Miss Lane. These four songs do not, by any means, comprise all of the musical entertainment in the picture, for it is in this film that the extraordinary novelty band discovered by Vallee in a St. Paul night club, which goes under the name of “Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band,’’ makes its motion picture debut. Band in “Bali? Number They are heard first playing the ‘Bali’? number and they also join with the rest of the company in the finale, their duties here being to repeat the ‘Bali’ song and to play “The Latin Quarter,’ but there are several spots in the film where they “‘give out” with samples of their characteristic entertaining, using three numbers they have played before, another which Fisher wrote especially for this picture, and a new arrangement of another Fisher composition. The new Schnickelfritz piece is entitled ““Old Hank”’ and is all about an old railroad engineer. The number for which the new arrangement was worked out is “Colonel Gorn, and the three others are the ones which have proved the most popular in their repertoire, namely, “Listen to the Mocking Bird,” “Tiger Rag” and “I Want to go to the Land Where the Sweet Daddies Go.” Float Heralds Movie The Gold Diggers are coming to town, and their coming was heralded today by a lavish and unusual float with a cargo of local beauties, which made its appearance on all the principal streets in town, attracting a great deal of attention. A band accompanied the pulchritudinous display, playing some of the catchy tunes from “Gold Diggers in Paris,’’ which is to have its premiere Friday at the Strand Theatre. This latest and most elaborate of the Warner Bros. musicals marks the return of Rudy Vallee to the screen after an absence of some three years, an event to which the millions of radio fans are looking forward to with delight. Rosemary Lane is featured with him, and a host of other famous folks. Ce