Strike Me Pink: A Bright, Palpable Hit

SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.

"Strike Me Pink": A Bright, Palpable Hit The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BIX)W MB THE RAINBOW « "STRIKE MB PINK.- Revue by Lew Brown mnd Ray H end or ton At the...

...Monogamy and marriage are current conventions, and perhaps the attitude shown in the play would be an improvementhut that the supposed artist and author cannot convince us they are more than idlers and parasitic drifters...
...The Circus, with Manifold Features, Opens Today at Madison Square Garden _ I For generations youngsters of J all ages have been thrilled at the opening of the eircus and have celebrated the event with marked enthusiasm...
...As a special added attraction, the Fox is showing Weber and Fields in a threereel comedy, "Beer Is Here...
...There is also an animated "Scrappy" cartoon, a newsreel and novelty short features...
...Holiday Show at Radio City The combination of "Cavalcade" at popular prices on the screen and the Spring and Easter festival presentation on the stage is said to be attracting large crowds to the Radio City Music Hall...
...In addition to its stage and screen show, the Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week is offering its patrons gratis the services of Princess Salma, Egyptian psychic...
...Maximo, Chaplin of the slack wire...
...Stage Show Includes Salma, Psychic...
...Holding forth on the mezzanine of the theatre, the Princess is endeavoring to give counsel to perplexed Brooklynites on matters of business, love, domestic happiness et al...
...the Clarks, the Smiths, Ed and Jenny Rooney, aerial headliners...
...Hie books, "The Russian Theatre," "Inside the Moscow Art Theatre," "Russia White or Red" and "The Moscow Art Theatre Series of Russian Plays" were the outgrowth of two previous trips to Russia, the winter of 1017-18 and again In 1924...
...They sing a neat bit with Schnoszle Durante: "Hollywood, Park Avenue, and Broadway...
...leaser features like the singing of George Dewey Washing ton and the excellent stepping of voting Hal Le Roy—a sparkling entertainment...
...Vabanque, French flying trapeze star, in his leap of death, and the Uyenos Japanese snd Ben Humid Arabians in a hippodrome track battle royal...
...It is only in Lupe's wrestling match in the smoking car, and Hope's mimicking of Lynn Fontanne in the hilarious "Design for Loving," that we have a good taste of their quality...
...From abroad comes the great Marcellus Flying Ballet Blastique of Paris...
...The skit naturally burlesques the sexual freedom of the play...
...In all, there are 800 artists in the huge program, and don't forget the only baby giraffe in captivity —Andy, born in ths show's giraffe corral only a few months ago...
...Dorothy Herbert, madcap reinless riding star of rearing and jumping horses...
...Beyond these we sre offered the exciting contrast of the it-full Lupe Velez and the flitful Hope Williams...
...But this season the circus folks themselves are celebrating as well as their patrons, for it's the Golden Jubilee year of the Ring ling Brothers' march to world cireus supremacy, and when the Ripgling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey Combined Circus opens today in Madison Square Garden evidence of the gala anniversary will be found in every department of The Greatest Show on Earth...
...The stage program is headlined by John Fogarty, Olympic sprinting ace and Radio singing star...
...Detailed Information about the tour and the festival may be obtained from the Drama League Travel Bureau, Hotel BarbizonPlata, New York...
...Grace DuFaye offers her contortion dance, and Tom and Betty Wonder indulge in some fsst foolery snd dsncing O&Ver M. Sayler Leads Drum* Leoaruo Group to Moscow Theatre Festival The first Moscow Theatrical Festival, with an elaborately arranged program covering the dates from June 1st through June 15th, will be the goal of a tour to Soviet Russia conducted by Oliver M. Sayler, well-known author of books on the Russian Theatre...
...Luisita Leers, aerial gymnaste...
...Glad as we sre to see these two, there is scarce room for them in the evening...
...The choice of Oliver M. Sayler to conduct this year's tour is based on his long acquaintance with the subject and his intimate personal association with the leading figures of the Russian stage...
...Strike Me Pink": A Bright, Palpable Hit The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BIX)W MB THE RAINBOW « "STRIKE MB PINK.- Revue by Lew Brown mnd Ray H end or ton At the Majftle...
...Although this will be the fourth annual lour of the Russian theatres sponsored by the Drama League Travel Bureau, It will be the first to profit by a definitely and compactly arranged schedule of playgoing...
...catchy songs with clever lines...
...quick skits and blackouts...
...One hundred < f the world's beat known clowns will offer one thousand new gags...
...Jimmy Durante dominates the evening, in more than your money's worth of merry and madcap entertainment...
...Theol Nelson, whirlwind pinwheel of the hippodrome track, and others as notable are among the outstanding features, while Hugo Zacchini, the human projectile, will again close the performance with a flash, a roar and a thrill...
...The schedule of the tour calls for sailing from New York on the North German Lloyd "Berlin" on May 10th, brief stopovers in Copenhagen and Helslngfors arrival in Leningrad on May 27th, four days of sightseeing and playgoing in the old Russian capital, ten days of attendance at the Theatre Festival in Moscow, and return via Leningrad and the Baltic Sea to New York on the S S. "Dresden" on June 25th...
...and the full substance of a revue surrounds him: a bright < and lively chorus, in graceful step to good music...
...Another innovation is the revival of the Buffalo ItnI Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of ths World, with standard bearers of all nations at the heads of their reckless riding contingents, military and irregular...
...The Wsllendas and Gretonas, dome-high tight wire suspense thrillers...
...hut most nf their work is in routine skits...
...There ia a full measure of rev luteal entertainment in "Strike Me Pink"—with two extra stars for depression bargain* Tbe comic antics of Jimmy (Schnoszle, or, as he says it, Schnossoala) Durante ] are absurd enough to brighten any | evening...
...It is worth mentioning that the basic iniquitous frivolity of "Design for Living" is not that it pictures an "immoral" sex relationship as natural...
...State Trooper" Opens at Fox Brooklyn...
...On the screen this week the Fox is offering "State Trooper," featuring Regis Toomey and Evalyn Knapp in a drama of a "fresh" cop and a pretty girl who And themselves whirled into the maelstrom o fa underworld Intrigue involving millions...
...the Rieffenaehs, Walters and Davenports, the most famous of all bareback riding stars...

Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 14


 
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