STATE

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 13

STATE

Fred Astaire, who would most certainly qualify as a professor of the modern dance, should be able to teach a very comprehensive course on the " do's " and " don't's " of romance also after his present co-starring musical with Ginger Rogers, ' Follow the Fleet,' _ at present at the State. The debonair master of terpsichore portrays a sailor whose courtship of a San Francisco entertainer contrasts the worst possible blunders a suitor could concoct with those romantic niceties that are dear to the hearts of all women. But every nicety is followed by an amazing blunder until the romantic climax of tliis melodic romance of the navy on shore leave, so that the As-taire-Rogers love-making is fireworks from beginning to end. Also as tempestuous is another romance between Harriet Hilliard, RKO Radio's muchheralded singing discovery, and Randolph Scott, which becomes a triangular affair through the enchantments of

Astrid Allwyn as a San Francisco play girl. The two heart tangles are interwoven with novel results when Astaire and Rogers essay the roles of coCupids. Irving Berlin, whoso songs were a big factor in helping ‘ Top Hat,’ smash popularity records, again sets the feet of the stars a-tapping and swinging through distinctive dance routines with seven melodies especially composed for the film.