COWBOYS AND COMEDY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 7

COWBOYS AND COMEDY

Two Bright Features at Crystal Palace

“Roll 1 Along, Cowboy,” a romantic Western musical, and a sparkling comedy, “Danger—Love at Work,” combine to make an excellent double-fea-ture programme for the Crystal Palace, beginning to-day. American radio’s best-known singing cowboy, Smith Ballew, becomes a singing horseman of the Western plains, at his rousing best as he stars in Zane Grey’s story, “Roll Along, Cowboy,” the Twentieth Century-Fox release featuring Cecilia Parker and Stanley Fields. A happy-go-lucky cowboy, blazing his way through the cattle country, routing rustlers with his sixguns and winning romance with his songs, this new kind of Western hero finds his most thrilling adventure in this story. Three new song hits destined to become favourites, are sung by Ballew in the course of the picture’s exciting story. They are “Stars Qver the Desert,“ Roll Along, Ride ’Em, Cowboy,” and “On the Sunny Side of the Rockies.”

Ballew, with his range partner, Stanley Fields, is unexpectedly thrust into the midst of a band of desperate cattle thieves intent upon stealing the herd owned by Cecilia Parker. For the breath-taking climax, Ballew and Fields shoot it out with the- renegades in a stirring gun battle in the midst of a spectacular cattle stampede. produced by. Sol Lesser o£ principal

Productions, “Roll Along. Cowboy,” was'directed by Gus Meins. Jack Haley, the “Phantom TroubaIdour,” of “Wake Up and Live,” sings

again in “Danger—Love at Work,” the new Twentieth Century-Fox comedy, in which he shares acting honours with Ann So them, Mary Bolafid, and Edward Everett Horton. In this new comedy by James Edward Grant and Ben Markson, his is not a phantom voice, however. Instead, he sings a new Gordon and Revel song, “Danger—Love at Work,” a streamlined bit of melody suggested to the song-writing team while passing a section of highway under construction.

Featured in the cast of the film, directed by Otto L. Preminger, are John Carradine, Walter Catlett. Bennie Bartlett, Alan Dinehart, Etienne Girardot, E. E. Clive, and the Pixilated Sisters (Margaret McWade and Margaret Seddon).