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Miss Colbert performs admirably, and emulates her role of the suffering Sally Trent as a torch singer under the assumed name of Mimi Benton, with a soothing croon which is good enough for any night club. Her wispy overtones are accompanied by the sweet harmony of Abe Lyman's band, and her "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love," has more direct bearing on the plot than theme songs in most movies we have seen recently...
...little absurdity about an institution called Midwest (football rival: Yarwood) where Jack Oakie is the dormitory dunce, Lona Andre the campus belle, Richard Aden a neurotic footballer, and Bing Crosby the professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair sample, contain as many radio clowns...
Produced on the clear assumption that radio listeners are even less intelligent than cinemaddicts, Hello, Everybody! does not even ask its audiences to imagine Kate Smith as anyone except Kate Smith. She is shown first on a farm, crooning to the horses and pigs, joking with the hired man. When a power company threatens to build a dam that will destroy the arable land for miles around, Kate Smith (Kate Smith) accepts an offer to croon professionally to get money to fight the power company in court. The latter part of the picture shows Kate Smith broadcasting in Manhattan, contains...
...thing is certain about the pupils Madame Alda sends into radio. They will not croon their way into overnight prosperity. They will not use voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
...first place, to call all tenors who sing popular songs 'crooners' is erroneous. It is distinctly wrong to classify them all under one head, because all of them that are at all advanced in their field are individual and have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine...