KING’S THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 13

KING’S THEATRE

“Rhythm on the Range” and “Hopalong Cassidy” Seven song-writers and a musical director have provided the melody for Bing Crosby’s latest success, “Rhythm Ou the Range,” which head®, a two-fea-ture programme at the King’s Theatre. The versatile actor-singer adds a new role to his many parts, that o£ nn outdoors man on a cattle range. He fits the part extremely well, and the part fits him. It displays his flair for comedy as well as his ability to unburden himself In song. Frances Fanner, as the heircs-s who “cuts loose’’ and heads for the West in a railroad van, is a sincere actress as well as a most attractive leading lady. All the same, she is hard put to it to win her man’s affection away from the quarter where he has bestowed it —a large Hereford bull he has won by cowboy skill at a New York rodeo. He is a bull gentle by nature but sometimes quickly roused, as the heiress finds at the expense of her nerves. Bob Burns adds to the comedy ns the pardner. Among the song hits are “Empty Saddles” and “I Can’t Escape from You.” Clarence E. Mulford's well-known sixgun character is the hero of “Hopalong Cassidy Returns,’’ and he has the job of cleaning up a saloon gang of which a ■woman is the brains. William Boyd has the leading role.