"ROSE OF THE RANCHO."
"'Rose of the Rancho." Paramount^ new musical, romance, has the first original operetta-type score ever written for the screen. The picture has more new songs than any other film ever made —eleven, to be exact, plus four Spanish dances. "Rose of the Rancho" marks the screen debut of Gladys Swarthout, beautiful Metropolitan Opera star, and of the new comedy team of Willie Howard and Herb Williams. Miss Swarthout sings five songs, while John Boles, who plays opposite her, has three, and tuev sing a duet . Willie Howard- has two songs. The picture represents new technique in screen musicals. Heretofore, motion picture producers have been somewhat baffled by the difficulty of presenting songs without slowing up the story, but Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin have overcome this problem. They wrote the songs to fit in directly with the dialogue. The music becomes a natural extension of the lines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 21
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