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14— UNIVERSAL WEEKLY ~ ju|y 20, 1935
News and Reviews of Univer
Here are the Eton boys, the leading novelty male singing quartette in radio. They are featured in five Coast to Coast hookups and appear in the Mentone
Musical, “ A Great Idea.”
“SPEEDY JUSTICE” READY
ONE of the new Mentone Musicals, just completed for next season's release, is entitled "Speedy Justice." The script, prepared by Ballard Macdonald, deals with a busload of entertainers who are apprehended for speeding. Unable to meet the amount of the fine imposed upon them by a slick rural magistrate, they compromise with the august minion of the law by presenting a complete vaudeville entertainment right in the courtroom. The local citizenry is rounded up, at a dollar a head, and everybody — judge, jury, defendants and audience — has a good time. Audiences, too, are bound to enjoy the performances of such stellar artists as: Lew Hearn, famous veteran comedian of the American musical com
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THEY HAVE PLEASED
W. BENJAMIN,
Kansas City, Mo.
“May we compliment you on your short subjects that we have run so far. They have pleased very well.”
(Signed) J. J. BOOK, Bird City Theatre, Bird City, Kansas
edy stage; Eddie Foy, Jr., one of the country's foremost stage juveniles, featured with Beatrice Lillie in the new Broadway musical show, "At Home Abroad;" Glenn & Jenkins, the American theatre's outstanding team of colored comedians; Bobby Lane, a little acrobatic dancer who is really remarkable; The Southland Rhythm Girls, a deluxe hot-cha quartet that is absolutely tops amongst entertainers in New York's swankiest night clubs; The 12 Danny Dare Dancers, six prepossessing young couples formed into a sensational adagio dancing troupe; and Arthur Boran, the nation's leading radio impersonator.
Another Entertaining Mentone Musical
GREAT entertainment is offered in "A Great Idea," another new Mentone Musical made for early autumn release. It was directed by Milton Schwarzwald, from a script by John Guy Sampsel. Besides being a prominent and prolific author, Sampsel has been known for fifteen years as a vaudeville headliner. It is no accident therefore, that he contributes a swell comedy characterization to the delightful Mentone production made from his own script. As Johnny Saunders, a glib and breezy talent salesman who overcomes a reluctant motion picture producer with a novelty entertainment idea, exhibitors and their patrons will recognize, in Sampsel, a peculiarly interesting combination of Ed Wynn and Walter Catlett. Featured in "A Great Idea" along with the author, are the following: The Eton Boys, preeminently the leading novelty male singing quartet in the radio field today; Consuelo Gonzales, dynamic young Spanish songstress; Marcy Brothers & Beatrice, personable trio of acrobatic dancing stars, who literally stepped into the new Mentone production immediately after completing a recordbreaking, seventy-week tour of stage appearances; and that charming youngster Sugar Cane who, at the age of twelve, is one of radio's best and most popular singing stars.
Some of the principals of the Mentone Musical, “Speedy Justice Lew Hearn acting as the judge, Eddie Foy, Jr., on the right and the celebrated colored comediennes, Glen & Jenkins at the bar.