COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 10

COSY THEATRE

"SING ME A LOVE SONG." Onp of the most entertaining musiciii romances that has been seen pn the Screen in-many a day will be shown a* the Cosy Theatre to-morrow, under tho title of "Sing Me a Love Song," a Cosmopolitan production reieased by First National with an all-star castf in.cluding James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, • ZaSu Pitts, Allen Jeukins and Nat Pendleton. The picture has an exeeptionally interesting and well-kpit plot for a mm gical. The story concerns the doings of a wealthy young man, brought up without knowledge of anything usefai, whose father suadenly dies and leavcs him at the head of a great city department store. He lets the store' run itself, while he philanders in other lands, until he is warned by his lawyers that it is fast losing money. He knows' nothing ahout the store, so decides to enter it as a clerk, incognito. He hears plenty ahout himself. He alsp is more interested in a beautiful fellow clerlr than in his store. In his egeapades he gets into serious trouble and has to reveal his identity, Believing that : the man, has been toying with her. affeations ihe girl disappears. He discovcrs lie is really in love with her and in-. stitutee a search, at the same tijne getting down to serious business. Melton sings all of the songs, mo(stly in solo, but one with a male chorus, and one with Miss Pitts^ who bursts into melody for the first timo in her career, Two numbers aFe staged and directed by Bolxby Co'nnolJy, one on tho roof of the department store anj tho other in a Honeymoon Cottage within tho store. Othex'3 in the cast include Ann Sheridan, Walter Catlett, Hobart Cavanagh and Dennis Moore.