Evening star., 1944-05-19

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There is no denying that these are
performers Of high skill, although
how many of them one can stand
at one sitting, so to speak, is a spe-
culation that will occur to you sew
eral times during Broadway
Rhythm"
Miss Simms is likely to come of
very happily in any such computa-
ton. Metro has treated her with
the consideration such a fetching,
personable girl deserves. 1t has
constructed a huge and highly
colored setting to frame her sing
ing Of a number called Amor"
and, as If that were not enough, it
has added an animated touch to
the background through the use Of
a male dancing chorus. Even better
from q vocal standpoint, it has
salvaged one Of the most popular Of
all modern love ballads, "All the
Things You Are" from the score Of
the Inflated stage musical, VERY
Warm for May" The movies have
been pretty slow getting around to
that, but now all is forgiven.
Miss Horne glitters, no less, in her
contributions in the vocal depart
ment of Broadway Rhythm" Her
singing Of the Gershwin brothers
Somebody Loves Me" probably is
the Interpretation for which the
number has been looking all these
years. Almost as pleasing is a
more contemporary item, Brazil
ian Boogie," which is somewhat
more original than the things usual
ly composed under such titles. The
latter, incidentally, is in the tempo
of the two numbers which Dorsey's
Band injects into the wayward pro-
ceedings of the picture.
While Murphy, Miss Simms,
Charles Winninger and Gloria De
Haven are giving their all to hold
ing the story together, various 9TH
ers come along to kick it pleasantly
to pieces.
Worthy of special mention among
this group are the Ross sisters, who
are the aerobats mentioned 800
words or SO ago. If such a show
must stop, theirs is the perfect act
to accomplish 1t. So is the inter-
lude in which Hazel Scott takes
over to illustrate what Schubert,
Chopin and others missed In think
ing Of the piano rs such straight
laced instrument.
i OF dancing, Broadway Rhythm"
offers the standard variety, smart
duet affair between Murphy and
Jane Hale, and a fast tap routine
by Walter Long which has the
effect Of momentarily making you
forget there are so many tap dane
ers in this world
Another Murphy, Dean, who has
convulsed Washington audiences
with his limitations, runs through
his list with sundiminished effect
even though there is a camera be-
tween himself and his local ad-
mirers.
AS we say. MGM not only lined
up enough talent for q census, much
less a musical, but 1t also went
in creating a setting having
the dimensions and all the colors
of the spectrum to hold your at
tention.
It is unlikely to prove enough,
however.
The in-person vaudevillians who
slug it out, rather successfully, too,
with the deluge with which the
picture drenches this weeks Capitol
audiences, are headed by Jerry
Wayne. That's the radio Wayne,
of course, who has sung too many
tunes to too many millions to need
critics word that he Is very good
Cook and Christy are the weeks
comedians, who are not too comic
about it, and Alfred Wallace's pup
pet revue contributes the grace
notes which Gene Ford deemed
necessary to round out the program.
Torture Tojo with another bond.
He will feel the squeeze more than
you do.