Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates.
Jeanette MacDonalds "Broadway Serenade," receiving the dubious honor of top-billing, is singularly devoid of all the elements that make a good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney.
Not even the railroads can save the co-feature, "Let Freedom Ring," for Nelson Eddy and Crew can't even reach the standards that put over "Dodge City" and "Union Pacific." Nelson Eddy is given a fine build up as the tough hombre who K. O.'s Victor McLaglen and drinks every member of the graduating class of the Harvard Law School under the table with case--Woo!--Woo!
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