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Show "When Day Is Done" and "My Wonderful One." Other songs, new and old, heard in the elaborate production, include "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl," "The Curse of an Aching Heart," "Father, "Fa-ther, Dear Father," "She's More to Be Pitied Than Censured," "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave," Be-have," and "Ta Ea Ra Boom-de- ' ROONEY & GARLAND TEAMED IN FAST MUSICAL SHOW Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Gar-land, heading a frolicksome juvenile juve-nile group, provide music with laughs in "Strike Up the Band," gay musical romance of youth, coming Sundayto the Rivoli theatre. thea-tre. Mickey and July, aided and abetted by June Preisser and other clever youngsters, many seen with them in "Babes In Arms," organize organ-ize a swing band in high school. Their adventures range from staging stag-ing a comical travesty on old-time plays with "corny" songs, to smart ballroom work, modern song hits such as "Nobody" and "Our Love Affair," and a big climax in a radio ra-dio studio where they win Paul Whiteman's prize with Gershwin's "Strike Up the Band," embellished embellish-ed by comical specialties. Busby Berkeley, who filmed "Babes In Arms" and "Forty Little Lit-tle Mothers," directed, with a cast that includes Paul Whiteman and his famous orchestra, June Preisser, Preis-ser, William Tracy, Larry Nunn, Margaret Early, Ann Shoemaker, Francis Pierlot, Virginia Brissac, Elliott Carpenter, George Lessey, Enid Bennett, and a hundred young players of high school age. Mickey plays an amazing drum solo in the "Drummer Boy" number num-ber by his orchestra. Paul White-man White-man and orchestra contribute |