MUSICAL ROMANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 10

MUSICAL ROMANCE

“BOSE OF THE BANCHO.” NEW ,SONGS AT REGENT. “Rose of the Rancho,” the new musical romance which commences to night at the Regent Theatre, boasts the first original operettatype score ever written for the screen. The picture lias more new songs than any other film ever made—ll to be exact, together with 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 live songs, while John Boles, .who plays opposite her, has three, and they sing a duet together. Willie Howard has two songs. Miss Swarthout sings frankly “popular” numbers in at least two instances. Her other songs are of the operetta type. Her two popular melodies are “Thunder Over Paradise’’ and “Don’t Tell a Secret to a Rose.” During the Spanish, fiesta scenes, the star sings “ Where Is My Love?” Her other songs are “Vigilante Song,” which serves to summon the Spanish IDons to fight invading American land-grabbers, and “The Padre and the Bride.” Boles’ numbers are “Little Rose of the Rancho,” “There’s Gold in Monterey,’’ a drinking song with a chorus of miners, and “1 Met Her on the Prairie.” The duet number is “If 1 Should Lose You,” and Willie Howard’s two comedy songs are “Got a Gal in California,” and “The Lone Cowboy.’ ’ Radio’s “The Lady Consents” includes a scene in which two actors are shown drinking canned beer. The producers have now received letters of protest from the Glassblowers’ Union and an association of bottle manufacturers.