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Bursting Into Song
After This Year, Hardly Anyone Will Dare To Speak Of Love Unless He Has A Good Tenor or Baritone Voice, And Happy Husbands Will All Be Crooners. Today, "Be Mine1 Is A Theme For B Minor.
THE screen has been credited with great influence. If this is true, the effect of the present crop of pictures will be somewhat startling. Only maidens with a High C will set forth upon the Sea of Matrimony. Passion will be poured forth pianissimo and the lover who finds himself in poor voice might just as well say good night and go home.
You remember Roxanne, in "Cyrano," complained that the plain avowal "I love you" lacked the fascinating and intriguing charm of more elaborate proposals— 'A kiss, the dot on the T in loving." That sort of thing used to get them. But this year it will be song. The brawny bass soloist will have girls hung about his neck like a lei in Hawaii. Every tenor will only have to take a deep breath and let go and the village heiress will crumple at his feet. If your daughter doesn't come upstairs at eleven o'clock, don't think that it is the radio she is listening to. Nope, that's your future sonin-law.
"Mayhap his virtues you don't see But he proposed in the key of Gv
Mary Ellis, a singer of many successes, and Carl Brisson tell in song the passion of a king, in "All the King's Horses."
Once was the time when two lovers were safe on the sofa in the parlor as long as they could be heard talking. Nowadays, the danger begins when you hear that first demi-semi-quaver.
There is only one bright spot— crooners usually make more than you do.
Allan Jones, a new name for the screen but not for Broadway, tells of love as he sings to Jean Harlow in "Reckless." You can see it has Jean stopped.
Dixie Lee (Mrs. Bing Crosby) knows about song in the home. In "Love in Bloom," she has Joe Morrison to woo her with sweet melodies.