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Keith's--"Rio Rita", all-talking, singing, dancing movie of Ziegfeld's operetta of the same name, with Bebe Daniels and John Boles...
...comedy. Knowing that years of success had made the original music boring, the producers have put in some good new songs, the best being "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other." RKO's policy of revivifying somewhat shopworn stars by publicizing them as new discoveries has worked out well with Bebe Daniels. She may not have as good a voice as Ziegfeld's stage Rita (Ethylind Terry) but she sings well enough and gets her lines over. Best shots : Miss Daniels in her metal dress; a Mexican padrone respect fully kissing a moneyed young man be cause he takes...
Even her friends never knew Bebe Daniels could sing, but no cinematically informed person, hearing that she was going to try, would doubt her ability to do it. For 20 years Bebe Daniels has done everything that any scenario required her to do. In the old Pathe comedies she used to get plastered with dough, tossed in blankets, dumped into ponds out of laundry baskets. Before that she took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive...
...Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length and 52 short Radio pictures, all of which will talk, many of which will also sing. In these pictures will appear Richard Dix, Rudy Vallee, Rod La Rocque, Owen Moore, Bebe Daniels, Betty Compson. Writers will include Ben Hecht, Charles McArthur, Eugene Walter, Viña Delmar. Thus among great film companies must be ranked Radio Corp., and to the list of cinema tycoons must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President...
Offer-by Thomas Meighan, to pay the railroad fare of any two "good" bridge players who would accompany himself and wife from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Meighan, an expert, has played with such famed bridgers as Milton C. Work and Sidney Lenz. Cinema people also consider Bebe Daniels capable of earning her living at the game...