Color and Fun for All in "Mexican Hayride"
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...At hoot, .hat", the pattern Bobby Clark, imt Havoc and the rent of a lively cast bring for your merriment to the Winter Garden...
...The tune was introduced by Miss Gibbs on the Camel Show where she has had a featured spot for the past l& consecutive months...
...There's madcap merriment abroad in the land...
...in the game way its power comes through...
...Then there is Mimi Forsythe, the beautiful young dancer giving up her silken slippers to work in a pair of military boots side by side with the men she loved, and little Cathy Frye who was too young to go, but who went anyway...
...The story reveals the love which springs up between a wounded American pilot played by Kent Smith and Natasha...
...Incidentally, June's pulchritude is carried over into one of the loveliest of recent gatherings of chorines, with lively steps and swaying...
...Bobby has the unerring sense of timing, the finger-press of emphasis, essential to the mime sad th* antic...
...Then yon roll -i— lau*l.oif and singing, hev-'J\ worKlwful time...
...And June wreaks havoc with us all...
...With all the fun and frolicking, I am tempted 'Decision...
...This breath-taking flow of color is then repeated, in wholly different arrangement, in a Mexican motif A great star is apparently heedless of the first momenta, sure of herself, knowing her stature will show...
...n fiasco and 1 oorv-suckle, get a hitch on a "Mexican Hayride" and frolic along...
...Miss Gibbs was honored recently when she was selected as one of the top Ave female vocalists in the radio editors' annual poll...
...Baby," which was written especially for her...
...ft'* a tale I "* trail of a numbers racketeer (Bobby) and his bol-aghting sister in law (June) M thty chase one another in Mexico...
...or puts her with Bobby Clark in the lugubrious death-ways of "Count Your Blessin...
...Donna 1. foul Haakon...
...Prttentad km jUkod Tadi ot tho Wimtar Tee start elowly, it liwi, en • .JJSeen Hayride," getting te knfV om- another...
...at the Be Usee Theatre, of Fascism on the home front...
...In the same way "Mexican Hayride" start* slowly...
...She was the songstress to introduce the current popular hit tune, "Shoo Shoo...
...GEORGIA GUIS...
...J. T. S. AMMA STEM ST4#S IN "THREE RUSSIAN GIRLS" AT THE PALACE THEATRE "Three Russian Girls" starring Anna Sten, Kent Smith and Alexander Granach is being held over at the RKO Palace Theatre where it has scored a success with its dramatic account of the heroic Red Cross nurses living, loving ^and fighting on the active Russian battle front...
...Corinna Mura and Wilbur Evans provide some excellent singing ("Hot *abu>co ami sacharine," .»ne character says of Mexico...
...Bobby is at the same time Goad Neighbor of the Week, and the man the police of two countries ire seeking...
...it might apply to the play...
...And his disguises— m the mariachi player with the lata...
...nonetheless to give first honors to the general color and surge, the sweep of the company in gorgeous f . isalaanss, Catching the eye and tho nstmirnHsn at once, they here yea gasping in the "Cartotta" iiamhir, where the- hoopskirt in white contrast with the star's salmon, then the swaying black nod greens, that dip their way in like mermaids en bell buoys...
...For a lively, lovely evening of charm and fun...
...A Gregor RabinoviUh Eugene Frenke production, "Three Russian Girls" features Anna Sten in the leading roles of Natasha, leader of the Red Cross nurses, brave in battle and tender in love...
...after the play's ilea start, he keeps the audience in ripples or guffaws of constant laaghter...
...A delight to look upon, she sis* can put over material: and when Cole Porter gives her songs like "There Must Be Someone for M*"—"Every boy mouse has a girl mouse, every boy grouse has a girl (reuse, every boy louse has a girl loose, there must be someone for me"—or "Abracadabra, you're, in low...
...and the variety of dancers from the rhythmically In Edward Chodorav's new play, " The play is a strong indictment arrohatir Heimanos to the rhythmically "classical" Paul Haakon, provides further speed and balance to pep the evening...
...as the Indian woman selling tortins* —give him opportunities far some of his best clowning in years...
...SINGING STAR OF RADIO...
...It reveals amazing battle scenes which were actually shot at the fighting front during the siege of Leningrad and it glorifies the heroism of women who are taking part in this world conflict now raging...
...AT THE STRAND THEATRf Georgia Gibbs, lovely singing star, will make her initial Broadway appearance when she opens on the stage of the Strand Theatre on February 11 as the added attraction along with Ina Ray Hutton and her orchestra...
Vol. 27 • February 1944 • No. 7
