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Show "Hello, Frisco, Hello" Has Spectacle And Glamour, Is Musical Film When it comes to making musical musi-cal pictures, there is one studio in Hollywood that tops them all. Now the word is that 20th Century-Fox, makers of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "My Gal Sal" and "Springtime in the Rockies," have done it again with "Hello, Frisco, Hello." The film, which is slated to open Thursday at the Rivoli Theatre, rates right alongside perhaps even ahead of those other oth-er famed filmusicals. It's little wonder the studio is preeminent in this field, when one sees what they have to work with. "Hello, Frisco, Hello" is produced in sumptuous Technicolor and boasts a dazzling cast of headlines, headlin-es, an entertaining story, an abundance of music both new and familiar all neatly packaged with some of the finest production numbers ever conceived. The stars? "Hello, Frisco, Hello" Hel-lo" marks Alice Faye's first film appearance in over a year which is welcome news indeed. With her is handsome John Payne in a tailor-made role, and rotund Jack Oakie plays for laughs. Completing the list of stars is luscious Lynn Earl, who doesn't sing or dance and brother, she doesn't have to! The story, simply told, is set on San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Four entertainers are trying to get on in the show world. The dynamo of the outfit is Payne, but the real drawing card is pert Alice Faye whose dulcet voice and "purty fig-ger" fig-ger" packs 'em in. With Jack Oakie and June Havoc, their struggle to the top provides a neat background for the appealing musical numbers. The songs are perhaps the most varied of any recent musical. For instance, there are such old favorites favo-rites as "Gee, But It's Great To Meet A Friend From Your Home Town," "Lindy Lou" and "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" coupled with the tune "Hello, Frisco," make pleasant listening, lis-tening, as does the new number by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. "You'll Never Know." This tune, which Alice Faye delivers as only she can, seems destined for top popularity the country over . Featured in the musical are Laird Cregar, June Havoc, Ward Bond and George Barbier. Bruce Humberstone directed the picture, which was produced by Milton Sperling, 1st Lieutenant, U.S.M.C.R. Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Richard Macaulay did the screen play. |