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...Master's Voice" is more Edward Everett Horton. He gets into trouble with his wife, and then he gets out. But the present solution, which allows him to regain her wifely confidence by the simple expedient of his finding fame and fortune as a crooner, The Fireside Troubadour, and hence being in a position to dictate terms, gives a gay and irresponsible twist to this new story of the trials of Horton. Laura Hope Crews plays the repressed and libidinous aunt to Peggy Conklin, his estranged wife...
...point of the performance: shrill Gracie Barrie singing I've Got To Get Hot, a ballad about a choir singer turned crooner which includes the following tristich: I've squelched my ideals, Now I belch at my meals...
...married yet. We're just engaged." In Hollywood, Cinemactor Clark Gable for the sixth time in six weeks denied reports that he is dead. To Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for observation was sent one Anna Mesina, 34, because she has for three years pestered Crooner Rudy Vallee by visiting his office, announcing that he is her husband, father of her six children. Sold in Los Angeles for a U. S. stock show record price of 35? per lb. was a carload of William Randolph Hearst's prize Hereford cattle...
This week the bill presented at the Paramount and Fenway to all and sundry bears a definite stamp of of mediocrity. The chief picture, "Shipmates Forever,"concerns itself with the life of a downtrodden midshipman, personified by Dick Powell. As an ex-crooner goaded into enter the Academy by a navy father (chief of the fleet, no less) and family traditions, he suffers a severe lacing from the less musically-minded upperclassmen. Despite much bitterness of heart and loneliness, offset only by the presence of Ruby Keeler, he finally comes out topside and, as might be expected, is ready...
Shipmates Forever (Warner), one more evidence of the fatal fascination which the Navy has for the cinema industry in general and Warner Brothers in particular, exhibits Dick Powell as a partially reformed night-club crooner struggling through Annapolis to win the acclaim of his father (Lewis Stone) and his girl (Ruby Keeler). Songs: I Love to Take Orders from You; I Love to Listen to Your Eyes...