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...earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze, the hit from Collegiate, for which Gordon...
Gladys Swarthout sings her way through every vicissitude in "Rose of the Rancho," an outdoor action romance with music and John Boles. Gladys' voice is so accurately and truthfully recorded that no one much cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially...
Rose of the Rancho (Paramount). As a vehicle for the cinema debut of Contralto Gladys Swarthout, a revival of David Belasco's famed stage success recommended itself for obvious reasons. Born of U. S. parents and reared in Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera...
Glads Swarthout's film, "Rose of the Rancho", now playing at the Met, provides restful relaxation during this bookish time. Its locale is old California, just after the United States annexed it, and the story is a highly romanticized version of the conflict between the old Spanish inhabitants and the land-greedy newcomers. In good musical comedy vein, if not with great historical accuracy, Miss Swarthout takes the part of the highly decorative leader of the Spanish "vigilantes" and John Boles the part of a "federal agent" who is out to see that justice is done...
...club, wanted one at San Francisco. But onetime Newsboy William P. Kyne got ahead of him with Bay Meadows at San Mateo, which last week ended its successful first meet. Producer Roach and Dr. Strub got together, raised $1,250,000, bought 210 acres of the famed Santa Anita Rancho at Arcadia where 40 years ago the late Elias Jackson ("Lucky") Baldwin bred racehorses and where four of his American Derby winners* are buried under a concrete Maltese Cross, replica of his racing emblem. Since last March, workmen have been busy making Santa Anita one of the best equipped racing...