Romance on the High Seas (Warner Bros.) (1948)

“Romance oN THE Hicn Seas” 10 (Advance) SOUTH AMERICAN CRUISE SETTING FOR WARNER FILM A star-studded musical, Warner Bros.’ dazzling Technicolor film, “Romance On The High Seas,” directed by the famed Michael Curtiz, is coming next Friday to the Strand Theatre. Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, plus the new singing sensation, Doris Day, top the brilliant cast. Oscar Levant, S. Z. Sakall, Fortunio Bonanova are_ featured, along with Eric Blore, William Bakewell and a host of musical talent such as the Page Cavanaugh Trio, Avon Long, Sir Lancelot and the Samba Kings. Great interest surrounds Curtiz? new find, Miss Day. She hails from the dance band circuit, this is her first film, and according to advance report, she turns in a striking performance which promises very big things for her in Hollywood. She sings, clowns and wears clothes with the greatest of ease, and projects that certain something in the way of personality. “It’s Magic” leads off the array of hits from Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. “Romance On The High Seas,” as the title implies, is a musical cruise to South America, with stopovers in Havana, Trinidad and Rio. Each sequence ushers in a musical flourish which Busby Berkeley has staged magnificently. Anton Grot is responsi ” ’ = ? “Run, Run, Run” and “Put ’Em in a Box,” all winners. S. Z. SAKALL Still SS-35 Mat 356-1C LOOK THIS WAY, PLEASE ... pleads Jack Carson to Doris Day, Warner Bros. new sensational comedienne in the brilliant Technicolor musical, ‘“‘Romance On The High Seas,” in which Janis Paige and Don DeFore also star. Coming next week to the Strand Theatre. Still 356-40 Mat 356-2D Technicolor Pastels Win Special Praise ‘Romance On The High Seas' Introduces Something New There is one star in Warner Bros.’ sensational new Technicolor musical splash, “Romance On The High Seas,” starring Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and the newcomer, Doris Day, coming next Friday to the Strand Theatre, who will never be seen on the screen. He ening of all effects to the quality of a classy fashion ad. This means using pastels. “It’s Technicolor that isn’t Technicolor at all,” he continues. Color is de-emphasized in backgrounds, thereby heightening costume and facial effects. “——ts—art° director” Anton Grot, One daring piece of experiment a chosen by Director Michael Curtiz to background the players with something new and different in Technicolor. Grot drew up designs and color which he claims are so revolutionary that he hesitates to reveal the secret until actually seen on the screen. Without giving away the details, what it amounts to is a reversal of the usual highlighting of color values. While Grot says, “It’s going to be a big surprise, different from anything ever seen before,” it can be told further that the objective has been a soft is a hotel lobby in Havana with walls and furnishings all in Technicolor white. Grot’s imagination runs wild in a couple of spots. Janis Paige bathes in a shower that is glass from top to bottom. The steam takes care of the censor’s office. Fantastic telephone booths in a hotel lobby is another trick bit introduced. For a swank office set, Grot designed doors minus any hinges. But it is the treatment of Technicolor pastels which makes “Romance On The High Seas” such a startling picture. ‘Romance On High Seas”’ Sparkles With Girls, Tunes Stage One at Warner Bros. was closed tighter than a vault, and the sweating cops who shooed visitors away from the doors said they hadn’t seen anything like it in years. Everybody wanted to get in. Not since the days of “Night and Day” and ‘My Wild Irish Rose” have so many long limbed, beauties assembled for high kicks and vocalizing. Busby Berkeley, distinguished Hollywood dance director and beauty appraiser, returned to Warner’s for the musical sequences of ‘Romance On The High Seas,” a Michael Curtiz production, coming soon to the Strand Theatre. Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don Defore, and the new singing sensation, Doris Day are the stars, but they were shoved into the background during the days that Berkeley picked the girls. “They’re better than ever,” Berkeley said, meaning, of course, the girls. “Their legs are prettier, their faces are fresher, their posture is better, and I think they even dance better.” Berkeley was making the comparison of Hollywood’s 1948 dancing girls with those of 10 to 15 years ago when he directed the loveliest in town for the musical scenes in such pictures as “Footlight Parade,” “42nd Street,” and “The Golddiggers” series. “One thing I’m sure of,” the dance director continued, “These girls are ambitious. There’s the gleam of stardom in every eye.” Time Off for Film Stint Carlos Barbe, Uruguayan counsul in Los Angeles, took time off from his duties to appear in a scene in Warner Bros.’ musical, “Romance On The High Seas,” a Michael Curtiz production, which comes to the Strand Theatre shortly. He donned formal wedding attire to appear in a scene where Janis Paige and Don DeFore get married in the gay musical, Publicity Copy (Column Plant) MICHAEL CURTIZ RAVES OVER NEW FIND DORIS DAY The Michael Curtiz formula for building a star is evident in Warner Bros.’ sensational musical, “Romance On The High Seas,” which has color by Technicolor, and due shortly at the Strand Theatre. For the first musical under his own productior® banner at Warner Bros., the distinguished director created a lush casting of stars around a key featured spot and then tossed into that spot a new discovery. The find is Doris Day and the stars in her galaxy are Jack Carson, Janis Paige and Don DeFore, with Oscar Levant, Fortunio Bonanova and S. Z. Sakall featured. Of his new Cinderella Curtiz says, “Doris is the greatest Hollywood discovery in the last five years. She is a born actress with terrific personality. Without any previous theatrical schooling, and never having done a role on stage or screen, she can become the top comedienne in pictures.” DORIS DAY Still DD-1 Mat 356-1G ‘'mIn Love’... ‘’!mIn Love’... ‘VmIn Love’... Doris Day, sensational new singing find in Warner Bros... gay ~~‘ Technicolor musical, ““Romance On The High Seas,”’ a Michael Curtiz production, coming soon to the Strand Theatre, has one novel number in the film which makes history. It’s a_ sprightly ditty called, “I’m In Love,”’ and the entire song is a constant repetition of this one phrase. It calls for glib diction on the part of the diva, and she delivers it with bravado! One-Man Show In Mexico, Fortunio Bonanova is a one-man.film company. The Latin-American star, now appearing in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical, “Romance On The High Seas,” coming soon to the Strand Theatre, produces, directs, acts and sings in his own films. Sometimes he even doubles —plays hero and villain! 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