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Last month Publisher Marks gave the genial oldster who is featured on such nostalgic occasions as the advent of Repeal a song title, told him to write a waltz to it. Metz went home, scratched out a tune on his violin. Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many...
Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name...
Fine Arts: "Two Hearts in Waltz Time...
...should go far toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song...
...Live Tonight (Columbia). A gay bachelor (Tullio Carminati) sings a waltz to a young girl (Lilian Harvey) whom he picked up in the Casino, took aboard his yacht. Fearing he loves her honestly, he sails away alone without telling her why. When he returns, the girl has agreed to marry his brother. Clearing the matter up takes much dialog and some music. Best shot: the final one, in which the heroine hears the theme song, "Love Passes By," played by a hurdy-gurdy, tooted on an automobile horn, sung by a beautician, a gardener and Carminati...