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...apart from music by real live people, I can recommend the soundtrack of "Syncopation" at the RKO Boston, which has the finest jazz recorded on it of any movie I can remember, including "Second Chorus" and every picture featuring a name band. It's encouraging to hear Bunny Berigan, who does nearly all of the trumpet work, in top form again...
Syncopation (RKO-Radio) is Hollywood's stoutest attempt to date to tell the story of U.S. popular music and how it grew. Unfortunately, the story, as gangling, forthright Director William Dieterle sees it, is too big for its breeches. Instead of illuminating, it interferes with the Grade-A presentation of a score of melodies, lovingly culled from the past 35 years of U.S. dance music...
...movie in which his obstreperous jive has been prominently featured. His orchestra seems to be just a backdrop for his antics, which have been fairly well received in the stage shows in which he has been appearing for the past few weeks. It might be well to visit the RKO Boston the week before the dance and decide on his merits for yourself. However, the quality of the orchestra seems to have become a secondary consideration with House dance committees, and though the jazz will be rare at Dunster House, Lowell will have its good time...
Sandwiched in between its usual weekly vaudeville show, RKO has some really first class entertainement this week. Count Basie, his band, and Maxine Sullivan, the girl whose Scotch has real flavor, are currently playing and singing there. Basie is such a genuine master of his mode of expression, he even makes the vaudeville seem fairly unobtrusive. In fact there are four couples of jitterbugs that do not once make you want to tear your hair, and who actually seem to belong in the show, because the Count plays...
...Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO Radio) are an exceptionally lazy family. Trying to get them to work is like trying to interest a six-day bicycle racer in a five-day week. Their laziness is encouraged by the man from whom they inherited it: their improvident, prolific, lovable father Jonas (Charles Laughton), South Seas remnant of the Massachusetts Tuttles...