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...present job of building radio shows, Riley started training at the age of eleven, when his magician's act made him a sort of boy wonder in Henderson, Kentucky, his home town. Roughing it later as a minstrel end-man and a showboat entertainer, he departed the tinseled and shabby byways of trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them...
...start at home with W. C. Fields and his lads and lasses of the showboat in "Mississippi." We may be a bit biassed, but we must consider Bill Fields the most interesting item in any picture which is fortunate enough to be graced by his bulbous-nosed presence. When his main rival for honors is Bing Crosby, there should be little opposition to our prejudice. In "Mississippi" Fields is good--not quite as good as he has been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged...
Howard v. Lincoln is the Big Game among Negro colleges. Last week they played at night on Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier. Lincoln's Left Tackle Robeson, kin of famed Singer Paul Robeson, scored a touchdown after a blocked kick. But Howard's Quarterback "Showboat" Wares would not be stopped. He made one touchdown, made possible another...
Music in the Air (words & music by Oscar Hammerstein II & Jerome Kern; Peggy Fears, producer). In collaboration for the first time since they wrote historic Showboat, the team of Hammerstein & Kern has contrived an exquisite frieze of melody against the background of Bavaria, that good clean land with a song in its throat. The tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes...
...brassiest showman out of show business, had taken the stump once more. No candidate himself, he was urging the re-election of twotime (1921-29) Governor Lennington Small. the character who was indicted, tried and made to disgorge withheld interest on State funds in 1925. On his ten-day showboat cruise "to inspect waterways." Big Bill had brought along the top of the State Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer. He and they stood in line on deck to shake hands with the muddy-footed electorate. Filing awkwardly past, the electorate was then shoved...