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Show Swing Tunes Tops in New Musicomedy I There are very few screen shows ithat can boast of the assortment of swing tunes heard in the new Fred MacMurray comedy, "Cocoa-nut "Cocoa-nut Grove," the new film that comes Sunday to the Roxy Theatre. Thea-tre. Put across by MacMurray, radio ra-dio songstress Harriet Hilliard, the Yacht Club Boys, Roife Davis and Harry Owens and his band, they number six in all, and come from the pens of some of Hollywood's better known composers. Heading the hit parade are "Says My Heart" by Lane and Loesser, and "You Leave Me Breathless" by Fried and Hollander. Harry Owens who penned last year's hit number one, "Sweet Leilani," besides be-sides appearing in a featured part in the new film, has , written two smash new .musical hits,":, "Cocoa-nut "Cocoa-nut Grove" and "Dreamy Hawaiian; Hawai-ian; Moon." Rufe Davis has 'two comic numbers in the piece, "Two Bits a Pair" and "Ten Easy Lessons" Les-sons" composed . by gag man Jack Rock. . A rt- J-gJ In addition to the new tunes, Owens and . his band play his "Sweet Leilani," the number that Bing Crosby popularized in his latest film. Owens, the story goes, wrote the number as a lullaby for his daughter, and it was only when Crosby picked it up and made it popular did he realize that he had a hit on his hands. Swing is in order in this story of what , happens when a crew of slap-happy musicians, hungry for fame, hungry for love, but most of the time just plain hungry set I off on a barnstorming tour across jthe continent to the world famed iCocoanut Grove long; callecl (the ("springboard of ' the stars," and iriecca for . all aspiring - young I bandleaders. MacMurray is seen jas the good looking leader of the orchestra, and in their various hi-'larious hi-'larious trials and tribulations in .their jaunt across the country, they pick up Miss Hilliard, who blossoms out as the girl vocalist j with the band, Rufe Davis, the j Kansas hill-billy who is a!so fame (struck, and the kid, Billy Lee. The I smash musical climax of the piece comes when MacMurray makes the ! grade at the Groveand opens in' a blaze of glory. " j |