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Show I "THE GAY DIVORCEE" i CALLED SCREEN'S FIRST j TRUE MUSICAL COMEDY i i "The Gay Divorcee" is declared to i '. be the first "true musical comedy" I 1 ever presented cn the screen. E j Studio officials, it is said, exhaus- j 1 ted every possibility to accurately t capture the giddy, headlong speed of j the plot, which, as a stage play star- E ring Fred Astaire, played 238 per- J ; formances in New York and sL j months in the Palace Theatre, Lcn- ' jdon. , I Hit numbers of the original play . I have been retained, including the i I celebrated "Night and Day" number,; to the music of which Astaire does j j his famous "Dance of Moods." There I !is also Astaire's sentational wild) dance of joy and abandonment. wherein, having at last won Ginger! Rogers, the lady of his dreams, he celebrates with a daring reprise of "The Continental," over tables, chairs, davenports and what-nots. The play itself is one of Broadway's Broad-way's historic incidents. Several times it was owned by rather desperate des-perate producers caught with a theatre on their hands and no play to produce. When they found something some-thing they thought was better, they passed the play along at a bargain rate. Eventually it made fortunes for those who finally produced it. Coming to Cameo Theatre, Sunday, Sun-day, Monday and Tuesday, January 6, 7 and 8. o |