COMING TO ST. JAMES.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 6

COMING TO ST. JAMES.

"The Music Goes Round."

Hollywood's fabulous wealth was unstintingly poured into the production of Columbia's new musical extraya§anza, "The Music Goes Round," which oasts a- cast of seven foremost entertainers .and features those two inimitable "swing" artists, Farley and Eiley, composers of the sensational "Music Goes 'Round and Around." Harry Richman, greatest of the singing stars, heads the glittering array of talent gathered by the Columbia Studios iron) stage, screen, radio, and operatic stage, and coming to the St. James Theatre tomorrow. Opposite Richman will be seen "the lovely, vivacious Rochelle Hudson, fresh from her recent dramatic triumph in "Show Them No Mercy." Walter Connolly will1, be seen, as the anvil-voiced showboat captain, a characterisation that is essentially Connollyesque. The other principals include Lionel Stander, the buzz-saw personality that has become an overnight sensation in Hollywood; Michael Bartlett,- the golden-toned tenor who shared Grace Moore's fame in "Love Me Forever," singing the title song, and; of course, Farley and Riley, the new New York favourites, who will be seen in >a spectacular musical sequence 'featuring the famous Onyx Club band and their 'round and 'round music. The Bayou Belles, fairest of Hollywood's loveliest; Les Hite's glorified music, and the rhythmic antics, of the famous Blackbirds, Dixie's own, add to the extravagant entertainment. The j?iant i cast of 4000 includes some seven hundred persons seen in the Mississippi levee scenes; 1500 others used in a single street scene; and another thousand employed in. a sequence showing the interior of a great Broadway theatre. Dancing girls, scores of negro entertainers, . two ■ full orchestras,- negro rouseabouts, dpckhands, and showboat audience and 'incidental character hits bang ijie full-manried-cast to-its imi [posingttotal.^ -■