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and would prostitute it at any price! Ironically enough, this knee-bending to popular public taste proved non-beneficial. Mr. Gorin was never seen ir any other feature picture!
The year 1939 proved the least musical of alli Even Gladys Swarthout, wanting to prove her dramatic mettle, starred in Paramount's "Ambush with Lloyd Nolan and sang nary a note! Hollywood did not
give her a second chance?
From Mexico that year came the Spanishlanguage film (no English sub-titles) of "Adventure Captain” starring the striking voice and personality <f jose Mojica.
To English-speaking movie audiences the outstanding item of musical worth was the British-produced Mikado". This lovely colour film was the first and mnly complete Gilbert and Sullivan operetta to reacli the screen Even popular American radio tenor Kenny Baker fell into the spell of the fantasy world of Titipu and together with Martyn Green and Sydney Granville managed to bring to life this most melodious and deiicious of the G & S imsical satires.
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald wen their separate ways during 1939. She ina aire calied "Broadway Serenade", wherein she attempted to sing "Un bei di™ from "Butterfly", and he in a bit of American hokum entitled "Let Freedom Ring”, Mr. Eddy also appeared in the pseudo-Russian musical "Balalaika™ with the Hungarian charmer Ilona Massey. This was locsely based on Lehar’s "Gypsy Love", for which another baritone had made a much more impressive version ~ Mr. Tibbett’s "Rogue Song"! At least "Balalaika™ proved sonically and visually more stimulating than the afore-mentioned "Let Freedom Ring",
The following year a dull and uninspired French production of Gustave Charpentier '’s “Louise” managed to secure a minimum of bookings throughout the country. Tts star and producer Grace Moore, : eee des (Continued on page 27)