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Show Dick Powell Popularizes Song Hits A song would be introduced in New York, taken on the road months later lat-er and long afterwards the whole country would become familiar with it. The talking picture and radio have changed it all. Dick Powell, star of "Happiness Ahead", which comes to the Cameo Theatre on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, December 2, 3 and 4, for instance, in less than two years has put over in a big way a score of songs that become national hits within a few weeks. Such numbers as "I'm Young and Healthy," "Shuffle Off To Buffalo," "By a Waterfall," "We're In The Money," "Why Do I Dream Those Dreams," "Shadow Waltz," "I'll String Along With You," "Fair and Warmer" and numerous others are examplei "One thing i don't have to worry about is songs," Powell said. "With such writers as Wrubel and Dixon, Fain and Kahal, Kalmar and Ruby, writing hits seems to have become a habit. All I have to do is put them over." In Dick's forthcoming picture, "Happiness Ahead," he will sing two of the four songs, and considers them the prize numbers of his repertoire. " 'Pop Goes My Heart' and 'Beauty Must Be Love' ," said Powell, "are the two surest-fire numbers I ever sang and that is saying a great deal, when I remember the fine numbers that' have been written for me." There are two other numbers in "Happiness Ahead." One is called "All on Account ot a strawoerry Sundae," sung by Dorothy Dare, the New York musical comedy star who recently was signed by First National. Nation-al. The other is "Massaging Window Panes" and is sung as a duet by Dick Powell and Frank McHugh. "Happiness Ahead" is a romantic comedy drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, with an all star cast cf talented tal-ented players. Josephine Hutchinson, in the feminine fem-inine lead, was formerly a member of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Reper-tory company in New York. Others in the cast include John Halliday, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Don-nelly, Russell Hicks, Marjorie Gate-son, Gate-son, Mary Treen, J. M. Kerrigan, Mary Russell and Gavin Gordon. The story is by Harry Sauber, and the screen play by Sauber and Brian Marlow. , n |