REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 66, 19 March 1937, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

“SING ME A LOVE SONG. - ’ Lilting music, rollicking laughter and glowing romance combine to make "Sing Me a Love Song,” a Cosmopolitan production released through First National, which is scheduled as the feature attraction at the Regent Theatre to-day, one of the most entertaining musical comedies of the year. There is an all-star cast headed by James Melton, the radio singer, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, ZaSu Pitts, Allen Jenkins and Nat Pendleton. Hugh Herbert, as a wealthy kleptomaniac, Allen Jenkins, as an Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, Za-Su Pitts, also a clerk and chum of Miss Ellis, Nat Pendleton, a belligerent chauffer, Walter Catlett, pompous floor walker and Hobart Cavanaugh, furnish most of the comedy. Others in the cast include Ann Sheridan, Charles Halton, Charles Richman, Dennis Moore, Granville Bates, George Guhl, Adrian Rosley, George Sorrel, Linda Perry, Robert Emmet O'Connor and Harry Hollingsworth. The story by Harry Sauber deals with the colourful adventures of a wealthy and somewhat irresponsible youth who goes to work incognito in his own department store to find out why the wheels aren't going around as they should. In doing so he falls in love with one of his clerks, gets himself and her tangled up in a series of innocent misadventures which land both a gaol. Melton's rich melodious voice will be heard in six songs altogether, three of them written by that famous song team of Harry Warren and Al Dubin, especially for the picture; one written by Jacques Wolfe, while the other two are oldtimers.