Evening star., 1936-02-29
Music Goes
ROundWith
Earle Show
Riley-Farley Band on
Stage Helps Film
as Feature.

WITH a mild-mannered musical,
w starring Harry Richman. occu-
pying the screen, and Mike Riley and
Band holding forth on the stage. the
Earle Theater yesterday was dedi-
Gated to instruction in the art of
blowing in one end of trumpet SO
music comes out the other end. Riley
and aFrley and their band though
still slightly surprised at the fame
which came to them through the in
nocent playing of "the greatest nov-
city tune since Yes, We Have No
Bananas" work hard at prolonging
the waning popularity of "The NJ. G.
r. and r."
The motion picture inspired by
the song. film entitled. THE Music
Goes Round" does not fare so we'll,
however. Three weeks ago everybody
in the place would have joined in
Justify with wild "oh-oh- oh oh oh
obs" when the proper time came. but
yesterday afternoon. when Mr.. Rich
mans photographed image shouted
from the center of the Earle's screen,
"Ev'rybody sing 1t" nothing happened.
The customers were content to sit
quietly and laugh occasionally at the
antics of the extras who got paid to
60 oh oh oh -oh-oh."
This is a very sad state OF affairs
because thousands of movie fans sit
ting in the cinema citadels of the
land chanting the lyrics of IN. G. r.
and R." might give the picture some
thing to stand on besides its own two
feet, which have something akin to
fallen arches. The fact that people
focked to the theater for an oppor-
tunity to moan "oh-oh-etc.," would
Offset the fact that THE Music Goes
Round" is one of those photoplays
classed at certain times Of the year
as Eight Summer film fare" And
this is February.
Aside from the fact that the story
arranges things so the big finale
comes with the production of the
stars musical on Broadway, an idea
that was new when the boys discov-
cred they could make records run the
same speed as projection machines:
that the seats would not be so hard
If the film were IS minutes shorter,
and that Harry Richman gives a good
Interpretation of fellow in place of
whom they should have chosen some
body else to play the lead, "The Music
Goes Round" is light and harmless
and occasionally very amusing and
entertaining.
There are some interludes of re-
freshing comedy, the best being con-
tributed by Lionel Stander; there is
the singing of IN. G. r. and R." in
operatic fashion by Michael Bartlett,
which is very good indeed, and there
is the delivery of their tune in their
own manner by Messrs. Riley and
Farley, which also aids the film. Wal
ter Connolly is in it and Rochelle
Hudson plays Rochelle Hudson.
The Riley-Farley stage appearance
scores, too. The boys and their Onyx
Club Band, pioneers of Swing music"
do couple of tunes in neat fashion,
then break into the original. version,
of the ditty which made them famous
and vice versa. The customers like 1t.
Sharing top honors on the vaude-
vile program is Fred Lightner, q
comic new to the town, who, aided
by e sleek blond who looks like an
illustration from that magazine for
men, causes much hearty laughter in
the pews. His version of M. G. r.
and r." shouldn't be missed. The
others. all first-rate performers. are
Ray Wilbert, fellow with quite
way with hoops, and the California
Revels, pleasant dance revue with q
girl who makes control dancing look
easier than it could be- H. M.