The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05
Promising Pictures Feature Programs Of Local 7heaters
.CACNEY DANCES
 IN NEW CINEMA
Something to Sing About Opens s Engagement at
 LOeW'S POIi Tomorrow

When James Cagney's latest Grand National picture, the Victor Schertzinger comedy with music, "Something to Sing About" opens at the Loew Poli theater tomorrow, the admirers of the dynamic redheaded star will get an added thrill because of the fact that it gives their ia |. vorite an opportunity to display his great talent as 8 dancer.
 Every Cagney fan is well aware that Jimmy started his professional career as a dancer and that he was just becoming really proficient in the art of terpischore, when he ob- tained an opportunity to act a straight dramatic role and did 1t so well that he has stuck to acting ever since. What most of ais admirers do not know, however, IS that Jiln- my, has never stopped practicing dancing, not because he ever ex- pected to perform again in public as dancer, but merely because he loves to dance. The result has been that he is actually a much better dancer today than he was eight years ago, when he last made pro- fessional use of his talent.
 So 1t wasn't so difficult for Victor Schertzinger and Zion Myers, the producers of Something to Sing About" when assigned to Grand National to make this company's second Cagney production, to per- Suade the popular star that it woulG be a good idea for him to interrupt temporarily his succession of straight dramatic pictures to do a musical in which he could make a vocation again of the art that is one of his most pleasurable avoca- tions.
 Of course, it isn't Jimmy's inten- ton to stick to musicals, and 1t may be long time before ne dances on the screen again but meanwhile his dancing in Something to Sing About" is certain to make his ad- mirers ask for more In the not too distant future.
 There are three long dancing se- quences in the picture. In two of them, those which open and close the picture, Cagney dances solo, and in the other he dances as member of a hoofing trio in which the other two members are Harland Dixon, generally recognized on the stage as the outstanding eccentric dancer of our generation, and Johnny Boyle, regarded by professional dancers everywhere, as the topnotcll tap expert of them all. Boyle has devoted most of his time in recent years to teaching, his best known pupil being Eleanor Powell.
 The sequence in which Cagnay dances with Dixon and Boyle is probably the most unique dancing scene ever staged in a motion pie ture, as well as the most entertain. ing.
 In the first place only male danc- CTS appear in 1t, and, in the second, there is nothing at all in 1t savor- ing of chorus dancing, there being no pointless geometrical maneuver- ing, but only real dancing.
 All of the dancers are men who have won front rank III their pro- fession. The names of some of them are not so well known today as they were a few years ago, when dance acts were top features of the van- ishing vaudeville business, when they were headliners, wherever they appeared.
 Aside from Cagney, Dixon and Boyle, the dancers in this scene in Something to Sing About" are Johnny (Skins) Miller, Buck Mack, Pat Moran, Joe Bennett and Eddie Allen.
 Another fact that makes this a truly outstanding picture is the screen debut of Evelyn Daw, the 20 year old. auburn haired, golden voiced girl.
 This lovely South Dakota sensa- ton has the fullest opportunity to display her glorious voice and mag netic personality in Something to Sing About"
 The second big hit on the pro- gram is "A Fight to the Finish" featuring Don Terry and Rosalind Keith.
 Tonight at Loew's Poll ends the engagement of Life of the Party" and Escape by Night"
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