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...Last of the Hill-Billies," a skit by H. I. Phillips, New York Sun columnist, showing a cabin full of mountaineers taking potshots at agents, theatrical, not revenue, who have come to kidnap the last of the mountain musicians for the radio and stage...
Before he became a vaudeville actor, Joe Penner had been a choir boy, magazine salesman, Ford filing clerk, property man for an act called "Rex the Mind Reader." He became an actor in 1923 when the comedian in the preceding skit deserted his show. Now married to a onetime chorus girl named Eleanor May Vogt, he has an Episcopal minister named Henry Scott Rubel write his songs. Nervous, shy and solemn in private life, he plays the violin, likes to make things with tools, hopes some day to be a dramatic writer...
...welded into pleasing entertainment. Lou Holtz and Phil Baker are well known comedians and with the exception of a very few dull moments are genuinely amusing throughout. Judy Canova and her family of hillbillies provide the high spot of the show's comedy efforts with an amusing skit and a very funny song which brought them long and loud applause. The deep voice of Gertrude Niessen is well known to radio listeners, but her exceedingly attractive person should, we hope, keep her occupied in a more visual form of work. Miss Patricia Bowman dances very prettily...
...good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers of As Thousands Cheer. "Chet" O'Brien lost his job. Dancer Miller followed...
...Orpheum: "Death on the Diamond"--This is a mystery telling of a murder on the baseball diamond which is intertwined with a romance. Madge Evans and Robert Young have the leading roles, along with the St. Louis Cardinals. The stage show offers Harry Howard in a singing and dance skit entitled "Born To Be Laughed...