OPERA HOUSE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 15

OPERA HOUSE.

"Sing Me a Love Song."

"Sing Me a Loye Song," Cosmopolitan's latest musical comedy, wnich First National will release at the Opera House tomorrow, has James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, Zasu Pitts, Allen Jenkins, and Nat Pendleton in the stellar roles. It is a highlyentertaining song and dance test with three new catchy tunes by the famous Broadway and Hollywood composers, Harry Warren and Al Dubin, one by Jacques Wolfe, and two old favourites. But it is not all music. There is one of the most entertaining stories the screen has produced, written by Harry Sauber. There are laughs, some thrills, and a romance that will gladden every heart. The story concerns a wealthy young man who falls heir to a department store. Knowing nothing about the management of it, he leaves it in the hands of two other, men. When he finds out, however, that they are crooked, he enters the store as a clerk to find out what it is all about. He falls in love with a pretty clerk, getting into one scrape after another through his devil-may-care attitude. When he and his girl finally land in gaol, he makes his identity known. When his girls leaves him because of his flightiness, he wakes up and takes charge of the business in earnest, thwarting the crooks who are trying to take it away from him. Melton sings all of the songs, mostly in solo, but one with a male chorus, and one with Miss Pitts, who bursts into melody for the first time in her career. Two numbers are staged and directed by Bobby Connolly, one on the roof of the department store and the other in a Honeymoon Cottage within the store. Others in the cast include Ann Sheridan, Walter Catlett, Hobart Cavanaugh, and Dennis Moore.