TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM
(Columbia)
MONG the files of every Hollywood studio there must surely be a folder labelled " Musicals-Stock Story for, with variations." It is hard to imagine
the average producer using any more elaborate means of obtaining stories for musical pictures. Time Out For Rhythm is no exception-it has the theatrical agents, glamorous star, sensational new discovery, ups and downs, songs ‘and dances of nearly every musical film that has ever been made. It also has Rudy Vallee, Ann Miller, Glen Gray and his Orchestra, and Rosemary Lane heading a cast of some of the most popular screen and radio favourites of America. Chief surprise of the whole picture is Allen Jenkins, whose stone-cracker face and Bowery accent have always been a source of joy to me, appearing as a singing, dancing, piano- playing theatrical agent. That and Glen Gray’s presentation of a musical number in which only the hands and instruments of the orchestra are visiblé (apparently done over with luminous paint) are the highlights of a
film that is otherwise merely a succession of songs and dances, with a short pause every now and then for a little story. Admittedly it is better done than usual, for Rudy Vallee sings only once. Ann Miller dances delightfully and sings prettily, and all the other members of the cast-including the Three Stoogesseem to have enjoyed themselves tremendously, The result is a fast-moving, faststepping show which should appeal to anyone with an ear for modern rhythm. If you haven’t got that kind of an ear you know what to do.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 122, 24 October 1941, Page 17
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261TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 122, 24 October 1941, Page 17
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