B. Lillie Can Get You To "Walk A Little Faster''
B. Lillie Can Get You To "Walk A Little Faster' CHOOSE THE NKAKKBT ENTKAf < K "WALK A LITTLE FASTER." Lyric* by E. Y. Harburg, music by Vernon Puke. Skite mainly by R. MacGunigle or S. J....
...Bob West, Rosa Rio on Stage At the Fox Brooklyn Theatre, beginning today, "The Unwritten Law," a new mystery film, will hold forth...
...Beatrice Lillie, comedienne par excellence, etire life into thia revue, which, when she and Bobby Clark are off-stage, usually needs its title admonition...
...Introducing a number, she says, "Do you mind if we show you...
...True, the minor figures have unusual stars beneath whose brilliance to shine...
...But Beatrice Lillie reminds one of the Chinese editor's rejection slip: "Your story is so good that if I use it, everyone will demand that I maintain that high quality, and as I can never hope to match it in a hundred years, I'd have to suspend publication...
...Do you...
...If the producer waited to match B. Lillie, there'd be no ahow...
...but what makes your blood course a little faster is the human truth in the frolicking of Beatrice Lillie...
...It's all about movie people and their lives behind the scenes and, in addition to its mystery angle, it shows how the talkies are made...
...Teatro Dei Piccoli" Opena at tha Lyric Dec...
...and the chorus has some good numbers...
...Although Teatro del Piccoli arrives in time for the holiday season, its stay at the Lyric Theatre is unlimited...
...Greta Nissen, Skeets Gallagher, Louise Fazenda, Mary Brian, Lew Cody, and Hedda Hopper make up the cast The stage attraction is Charles E. Higgemeyers "Polka Dot Follies," presenting Miriam Hoffman and her sixteen Modern Minstrel Maids in a program of diversified music and specialities...
...Skite mainly by R. MacGunigle or S. J. Perelman...
...Outstanding atar acts will comprise tha weekly programs which will be offered to the devotees of vaudeville at popular prices...
...22 This Thursday evening, at the Xyric Theatre, S,, Hurok will present Vittbrio Podrecca'a Theatrh del Piccoli, an Italian marionette show which makea its headquarters in Rome and which comes here after sixteen years of extensive travel through the capitals of Europe...
...Ben Dova and Don Santos are also part of this stage show...
...The inaugural will mark the return of deluxe vaudeville to tha Great White Way and the policy of the Broadway Theatre under the direction of Klein will be tha same aa that which made famoua the Palace Theatre...
...Teatro del Piccoli gives a full evening'a entertainment of comic opera and vaudeville and makes I its appeal directly to the adult The program for the opening night will be in four parts...
...Then, as she turns away, "We will anyhow...
...Just once, in a trifle, she oversteps...
...as an English lady caught in the spell of Negro spirituals...
...Arthur Klein's new project climsxes a long career in the emusement world—a career which has taken him from juvenile roles on tha stage to high executive positions in the production and managerial held of both stage and screen, Thia latest venture of Arthur Klein in the field of vaudeville recalls the halcyon days of variety shows, when Klein brought to the stage and made prominent in vaudeville such wellknown stars as Elsie Janis, Al Jolson, Eva Tanguay, Belle Baker Conroy...
...James...
...Her impudent vulgarity, her deft breaking just the funny aide of portraiture, are the result of a natural sense of the comic combined with sensitive and intelligent practice...
...as Frisco Fanny, the pure worker in a Yukon dive...
...At the St...
...J. T. S, "Unwritten Law" Mystery Film at Fox Brooklyn...
...Arthur Klein to Reopen the Broadway Theatre With Big Time Vaudeville Under the banner of Arthur Klein, the Broadway Theatre, at Broadway and 68rd Street, will open ita doors on Monday evening, December 86th, to present-day two-a-day vaudeville...
...or just as Beatrice Lillie—she is the show Bobby Clark ("and McCullough") is a good foil to her fun...
...Staged by Albertina Rasch and Monty Woolley...
...But, as a cof-' lege girl of the 18t)0's...
...This phrase, she has probably felt, is excessive, and has already dropped...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 25
