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JUDY GARLAND, MICKEY ROONEY AND BAND DO SOME RUG-CUTTING
PAUL WHITEMAN OFFERS MICKEY SOME NEEDED CASH
JUNE PREISSER AND MR. ROONEY GOING TO THE DOGS
JUDY AND MICKEY PLAY-ACTING
IMPORTANT
Comedy: “Strike Dp the Bond”
A Metro-Golriwyn-Mayer Production, with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Preisser, Paul Whiteman, William Tracy and Larry Nunn
MICKEY ROONEY, the personality, has been rated America’s No. 1 box-office attraction. He has the kind of dynamic, mugging effervescence that comes off the screen intact to smack a movie audience and leave it gasping. Best partner for Rooney, atid the ordy one who has not been eclipsed by him, is Judy Garland.
The Rooney-Garland combination is, to put it mild¬ ly, terrific. “Babes in Arms,” their last musical, was one of the biggest money makers M-G-M ever made. Since the advent of that film, the movie public has been con¬ stantly clamoring for the pair to appear together again.
‘‘Strike Up the Band” is the story of a dilapidated high school orchestra pepped up into a hep-cat, jiving outfit by skin-heater Mickey Rooney himself. Rooney’s orchestra competes in a contest held by Paul Whiteman, to determine the best high school hand in the country.
His efforts and those of his hand, his girl (Judy Garland) and the machinations of an adolescent femme fatale (June Preisser) all go to make up the plot. After raising and losing the fare money to Chicago two or three times, the band does eventually get there. We leave it to your imagination how it makes out.
It’s a song-studded picture, this one directed by Busby Berkeley (famous for his super-production numbers), with the title number by George and Ira Gershwin, and most of the music and lyrics by Roger Edens.
With accent on youth, the film manages to pack pep, sparkle and everything one could ask of a musical. Miss Garland was never in better voice and her acting is something worthy of a first-rate comedienne. Rooney is Rooney — which is enough for ten million Ameri¬ cans. Paul Whiteman appears briefly and a little self¬ consciously, and June Preisser plays a role almost du¬ plicating the one she had in “Babes in Arms” — the spoiled, young heiress. Plots really don’t matter in mu¬ sicals — one of the reasons “Strike Up the Band” makes the most entertaining cinema footage in a long time.