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...featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara...
...Institute of Musical Art. To 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...
...other picture, "Give Us This Night," allows grand opera stars Gladys Swarthout and Jan Kispura to sing to one another in Sorrento by the sea. There is, to be sure, the hackneyed admixture of sacrifice, misunderstanding, running out at the last minute, and reappearing at an even later minute to displace the incompetent substitute. Also on the debit side is the fact that both Gladys and Jan know more about vocal cords than histrionics. But there are many snatches of freshness, and Jan keeps you fairly excited by a fiery vigor amounting almost to daftness. Gladys, moreover, does not invite...
Strictly in the new technique for screen operettas, the plot is less a series of music cues than an ornamental bubble tossed on the Hood of song issuing from Kiepura and Swarthout. Best ballads: A Song Kissed the Sky, I Need to Say I Love...
...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...