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Show Singing stars at Paramount beginning Fri. It often takes performers many years to accomplish what Robert Goulet, former Broadway musical star, has accomplished in his first two movies. The personable Mr. Goulet, who became a top Broadway favorite with his performance as the romantic Sir Lancelot in the Lerner-Loewe musical screen as a successfully all-b all-b u t-converted-to n o n-v o c a 1 leadingman of largely non-vocal films. This is most apparent about Robert, a dark-haired, blue-eyed blue-eyed and handsome young man in his co-starring role with Sandra Dee, Andy Williams and Maurice Chevalier in Universal Un-iversal "I'd Rather Be Rich." The Ross Hunter production in color, comes to the Paramount Friday. Throughout the body of the picture, a modern romantic comedy, Robert is 99-44100 non-vocal in his wooing of Sandra Dee over the strenuous opposition of Andy Williams, another top singer who does sing several numbers. After his Broadway smash in "Camelot," Robert appeared and sang on any number of top television shows, in the U. S. and England. And in 1962, he did the male lead voice only in the animated feature "Gay Purr-ee," with Judy Garland. Gar-land. Bob made an auspicious Manhattan supperclub debut at the exclusive Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel. Ralph T. Moore writes in the Oregon Voter: "The racial issue is-sue gets worse instead of better bet-ter as Negroes, spurred on by the accumulation of past frustrations, frus-trations, disregard the advice of their more intelligent leaders lead-ers and keep up a drum-fire of outright anarchy and mob action, destroying property, inflicting in-flicting casualties on innocent people, and giving vent to a jungle-like viciousness intolerable intoler-able of their own Negro leadership leader-ship as well as to their white fellow Americans. Nothing could be more harmful to their cause of achieving equality . ." |