Go Into Your Dance (Warner Bros.) (1935)

© Daily. Publicity (Review ) ‘Go Into Your Dance’ Proves A Smashing Hit Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler Remarkable Team In Mammoth Musical HISTLING and humming the new song hits intro duced in First National’s latest musical spectacle, ‘“Go Into Your Dance,’’ the great throngs that at tended the local premiere of the show at the.............. Theatre yesterday, left in a happy frame of mind. For they had seen one of the greatest shows of the year. First National has given the public not only a musical comedy, but a picture that is replete with dramatic situa tions as well as hilarious laughs, romance and gigantic, spectacu‘lar dance numbers. The cast is headed by a most team, Al Jolson, stage and screen star who introduced the talking picture, and his wife, Ruby Keeler, one time musical comedy star who rose to remarkable fame on the screen in the last two years. Never before played together, each fearing “to take the spotlight from “the other. But in this picture they work together as a perfect romantic team. Jolson shows more of his old time verve, both in his singing and his acting, than he has displayed in any other picture. His work with Miss Keeler seems to have given him an unusual stimulus. As a Broadway entertainer, in the picture, he is barred from the New York stage because of his fondness for the “ponies” and also wine and women. After sharing honors with a little dancing girl in a mid-West town he stages a comeback that sets the theatrical world aflame. Miss Keeler is as sweet and winsome as ever as the dancing partner, who is unable to hide her love for the great entertainer although he continually snubs her, having fallen for the wiles of a blues singer, the wife of the king of the underworld. have the two Experts Predict New Dance Step Will Create Fad Unless the Hollywood dance experts are wrong, there’s a new dance step about to sweep the country. It’s called the “Tangotham,” pronounced tang-otham, with the accent on the first syllable. The dance comes rightfully by its name, for it is introduced to the public to the accompaniment of the Warren and Dubin song, “A Latin from Manhattan” in the Bobby Connolly dance ensembles which appear in the First National picture, “Go Into Your Dance,” which comes to the ae Ga NO Btre Ons). 0 i30se0s ws Connolly created a dance which is based on a triple combination. the tango, the rhumba and the fandago, but there’s more to it than just that. It has a smattering of waltz, a touch of one-step and a bit of fox-trot. Primarily intended for exhibition purposes, it nevertheless lends itself perfectly to ballroom adaptation, and those who have seen it predict it will be taken up and become a vogue. Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, his wife, are starred together for the first time in “Go Into Your Dance,” a mammoth musical by Bradford Ropes. Others in the east include Glenda Farrell, Helen Morgan, Barton MacLane, Phil Regan and Gordon Westcott. “Go Into Your Dance” is from the screen play by Earl Baldwin. Helen Morgan, torch singer and . piano sitter, is given a bigger part than usual. Her singing is exvellent, but she also has an important role as the other woman and rival of Miss Keeler for the love of Jolson, the entertainer. She handles a _ difficult part with rare artistry. Glenda Farrell is the same wise-cracking, hard-boiled character she usually portrays, although in this picture she is not the gold digging type, her entire interest lying in keeping her brother, Al Jolson, from ruination through his own folly. Hex work is fast and snappy and adds no end to the rollicking humor of the production. Others who do exceptionally fine work include Barton MacLane, Sharon Juynne, Patsy Kelly and Phil Regan. Bobby Connolly, famous director of stage and screen musicals, has outdone all his previous work with the spectacular dance ensembles he created and staged for this picture. The story by Bradford Ropes, author of “42nd Street,” is not only hilariously funny, but is interspersed. with intense dramatic moments and carries a most fascinating romance. The catchy tunes were written by the famous team of Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Hello, Akron Our artist’s answer to our plea for a different type of Ruby Keeler sketch. Ruby and Al Jolson appear in “Go Into Your Dance, now at the__________________ Mat No. 1—10c Sad and Weary And here you see Al Jolson at his best, Ruby Keeler practically in his arms, burnt cork on his face and a song on his lips. The scene is from Warner Bros.’ latest musical hit, “Go Into Your Dance,” TLOW SALE Seen Ol ME Fe, eae Set Theatre. In addition to gorgeou: songs, beautiful girls and a bevy of stars, the picture has one of the strongest stories ever filmed. Mat No. 4—20c Three Girls in One! That’s Ruby Keeler Popular Film Star Three girls in one! That’s Ruby Keeler, the lovely young First National star who is starred with her husband, Al Jolson, for the first time in the musical romance, “Go Into Your Dance,” now showing at the Peet a eatin Theatre. RUBY KEELER Strand Mat No. 15— 10c Everyone knows the first Ruby, the clever youngster who scored a terrific hit in her first picture, “42nd Strect.” The second Ruby is not as widely known to the public at large as the first. She is Mrs. Al Jolson, devoted wife of the famous stage, sereen and radio entertainer. The third Ruby is virtually unknown to everyone but her family and close friends — for the third Ruby is the unassuming and down-to-earth daughter of 2 large Trish clan, who has fought her way to fame and fortune through her own efforts. The first Ruby — the movie star Ruby—would be discarded in a moment if she conflicted with the other two. But Miss Keele: proudly believes that she has reconciled the three phases of her life into one happy and successful whole. “Go Into Your Dance” is the latest mammoth musical under the First National banner. Specialty numbers were staged by Bobby Connolly with scores of beautiful girls, and with music and lyrics by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. The screen play is by Earl Baldwin, based on the story by Bradford Ropes. The ail star cast is headed by Jolson and Miss Keeler, while others include Glenda Farrell, Helen Morgan, Barton MacLane, Sharon Lynne, Patsy Kelly, Benny Rubin, Phil Regan and Gordon Westcott. Jolson, Playing Hunches Is Happy About New Film Al Jolson always “plays a hunch” and because of that is very happy right now. He and his pretty wife, Ruby Keeler, head the all-star cast of the First National film, “Go Into Your Dance,” now showing at the seh Ree 8 Bk Bt i Theatre, and according to all the hunches that have heretofore guided him to the heights of success, Jolson feels this picture is headed for the same class. The fact that the picture is based ou a story by Bradford Ropes is perhaps the highlight of Joison’s omens. It was the same author who wrote “42nd Street,” which served as Ruby’s cinema debut and sky-rocketed her to fame. Ear! Baldwin wrote the screen play and adaptation of “Go Into Your Dance,” and it was Baldwin who performed the same task on Al’s very successful “Wonder Bar’ iast season. Ruby’s presence in the picture and the fact that both she and Al have overcome the nervousness and feeling of self-consciousness they previously felt as they watched each other work, added even more impetus to the mammy singer’s hunch that the picture was going to be a hit. Helen Morgan plays one of the leading parts in it. Because Helen and Al were both establishing theatre records on Broadway at the same time, he accepts it as indicative that they would repeat that in their first picture together. : The music is by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, the ace songsters who supplied the music for all of Ruby’s hit pictures. Bobby Connolly, who directed the dance ensembles in this production, did the same in thirteen of Ziegfeld’s hits on Broadway and Al’s Great White Way association with Connolly is just another hunch. Patsy Kelly, stage and screen comedienne, was in his stage play, “Wonder Bar.” Since she is in this picture with him, he put up another tally-mark on the favorable omen list. Jolson Wrecks Scenes Calling His Wife “Ruby” Al Jolson is Ruby Keeler’s husband first, after that he’s an actor. That explains why, during the filming of the First National picture, “Go Into Your Dance,” now showing at the ........ Theatre, Al occasionally used wrong dialogue. Al plays a character named “Al” in the picture, and that made dialogue easy for Ruby. She just had to address him as she always does. Jolson, however, had a problem on his hands. Ruby is Ruby only so long as she remained behind the cameras. In front of it she was “Dorothy,” for that’s her name in the picture. On several oceasions Al addressed Ruby by her own name and thus ruined the scene, much to the amusement of the other players on the set and the exasperation of the director. “This ig Hollywood,” explained Al, “where a fellow can’t even call his wife by her right name!” Jolson is starred with his wife, Miss Keeler, for the first time in “Go Into Your Dance,” First National’s latest musical spectacle. Others in the cast include Glenda Farrell, Helen Morgan, Barton MacLane, Benny Rubin, Phil Regan and Gordon Westcott. Specialty numbers in which scores of chorus beauties dance were created and staged by Bobby Connolly, with music by Warren and Dubin. The screen play is by Earl Baldwin, based on the story by Bradford Ropes. Star | Singing You'd be smiling, too, if you had a wife like Ruby Keeler to play oppo Happy—and why not? site you in “Go Into Your Dance.” Oh, yes—Al and the missus are receiving callers all this week at the______-----------------Mat No. 11—10c Keeler-Morgan Battle Goes on One Whole Day From nine in the morning until six o’clock at night Ruby Keeler and Helen Morgan spent one whole day in argument. As in the case of the battle forces of the Central American republics, time out was. taken for luncheon, but then the argument was resumed. Away from the cameras, Ruby and Helen are the greatest of friends, but in their present First National film, “Go Into Your Dance,” now showing at the ESE OREN Shs Theatre, the two actresses are bitter enemies. Miss Keeler is starred with her husband, Al Jolson, for the first time in “Go Into Your Dance.” Others in the cast include, besides Miss Morgan, Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Benny Rubin and Phil Regan. Page Twenty-one