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Get By As a matter of fact in “I’ll Get By , lovely June Haver again is a member of a sister dancing-and-singing act. This time herpartner is versatile and beautiful Gloria de Haven. They fall in love with the shoe- stringers and it is largely because of the spirited fashion in which the girls introduce their songs that success comes to the promotors who had no scruples it it meant they were in line to make “a fast buck”. The story starts in 1939 when the song plugger, backed by his frustrated sec- retary, Murph, goes into the music pub- lishing business. But, he’s an immediate flop! His money runs out and everything looks black when into his office walks a yoing Texan, who has written a song, “I’ll Get By”, and is willing to part with $500 to have it published. From then on the two are inseparable. What happens to them and what they do to the sister act would discourage a whole army, but this foursome carries on—to eventual success. Pictured at the left are Gloria de Haven (left) and June Haver. Below, from left to right are: Harry James and his cornet, Miss de Haven, Dennis Day, Miss Haver and Bill Lundigan. How a brassy song plugger, on a shoe- string, climbed to leadership of Tin Pan Alley is tunefully pictured in "I’ll Get By”, a Technicolor special featuring an all-star cast of musical comedy favorites from the screen, radio and stage. Romantically headlined and entwined are June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria de Haven and Dennis Day. Further con- tributing to the merriment of this gay, tune- ful romantic drama of a pair of conniving young men who pyramid nickles earned from a so-so tune to an influential music pub- lishing concern are Harry James and his band, Reginald Gardiner, Danny Daven- port, Thelma Ritter, Steve Allen, Marion Marshall and others. The element of speculation in trans- forming “I’ll Get By” into a mass-appeal musical has been reduced to the absolute minimum by Producer William Perlberg and Director Richard Sale, for in this Screen- play written by the latter and Mary Anita Loos, there are specialties by Jeanne Crain, Dan Dailey and Clifton Webb. In a featured role is red-headed Helene Stanley, who has a Ilildegard voice, a pair of Ann Miller dancing feet and is an aerial acrobat, I’ll *