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Show "Sweet Adeline" New Musical Hit "Sweet Adeline," Warner Bros-new Bros-new musical spectacle and said to be the most pretentious of all their gigantic specials, opens at the Cameo Theatre, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, February 10, 11 and 12, -with Irene Dunne, famous stage and screen singing star in the title role. The picture is taken from the sensational Broadway hit by Jerome Jer-ome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein n and is crommed with hilarious comedy, delightful romance and stirring drama in addition to its gigantic specialty numbers. Unique' dancing numbers are staged by Bobby Connolly on novel and mammoth sets with scores of Hollywood's " most beautiful girls taking part- The music of this operetta, written writ-ten by the authors of the musical comedy, contains some of the most popular songs of the day- In addition ad-dition to the eight in the original show, two new songs were written specially for the screen version. Five of these songs are sung by Irene Dunne alone. She sings two others with Phil Regan, the singing cop of radio fame who also sings one song solo. Dorothy Dare, Broadway Broad-way musical cmedy star, sings a popular ballad while Hugh Herbert and Nydia Westman will be heard in a comedy duet- The picture is laid in the glamorous glamor-ous period of the gay nineties with the Broadway theatrical world as its setting. Irene Dunne has the role of a singer in her father's famous fam-ous Hoboken beer garden which is the rendezvous of theatrical folk and New York's young bloods and men about town. Donald Woods plays opposite her in the romantic role with Louis' Calhem as his rival. Four of the film colony's most talented comedians are said to give the picture a hilarious comedy touch that is unequaled- They include Hugh Herbert, Nydia Westman, Ned Sparks and Joseph Cawthorn- Winifred1 Wini-fred1 Shaw also has an important part. |
