COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 11

COSY THEATRE

"MELODY FOR TWO." Those who saw and enjoyed "Sing Me a Love Song" will certainly want to see "Melody for Two," with the same starring players, James Melton^ and Patricia Ellis, which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-n'ight. _ . Tin Pan Alley, night clubs and radio stations ligure prominently in the background of "Melody For Two.?' The • story, much stronger than most musicals, concerns the love affair berween a singing orchestra leader and his young woman solOist, their separation through a misunderstandihg which all but ruins the man, his comeback by udapting the seductive Swing rhylhm to the ballroom, and a spirited competidon staged between his orchestra oi' gorgeous bloudes and the "girl friend's t>and of young mon musicians over tbe radio. Melton, of course, "has the leadersinger fole, Miss Ellis is his girl friend who later becomes his greatest professional rival and Miss Shaw is a torch singer who takes over Melton 'a afteetions after he and Miss Ellis go their differ.ent ways. Fred Koating also is a member of the cast, enacting the role of a comedy manager, Marie Wilson is a bull fiddle playor, and Charles Foy is a hoofing press agent. Craig Reynolds plays the part of a gossip columnist. A1 Dubin and Harry Warren and M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl provided a snappy collection of swing tun'es.