"THE MELODY LINGERS ON."
Melody, romance, and drama art blended into a soul-stirring symphony of emotion in "The Melody Lingers On," Edward Small's new Reliance Picture which comes to the screen shortly in New Zealand, released by United Artists. Josephine Hutchinson and George Houston, Hollywood's sensa tional new opera star screen find, hea;i the cast of this heart-gripping romanti': drama with music, based on the novel />y Lowell Brentano. Ann Prescott, a carefree young American girl, studying music abroad during the Worlc War. meets and falls in love with Saivinl, a famous operatic star on leave from the front. Their romance i* shattered by the grim hand of war anri the girl leaves her baby in a convent. Salvini is killed in action. The year? , bring fame and Honour to Ann—but not happiness., Then she locates he' son, and after many conflicts nnris satisfaction in witnessing his sens" tional operatic debut in the famous I,"* Scala Opera House where she first heard and fell in love' with his father Also prominent in the cast of this Harry M. Goetz presentation are John Halliday, Mona Barrie, William Harrigan. David Scott, and Walter Kingsford
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 14
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