Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

November 29, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD 49 W MUSIC AND TALENT Make Records by "Remote Control 99 STAGE SHOWS Baltimore Century Week Ending November 21 "Nightingale Melodies," a Loew-Capitol theatre unit staged by Arthur Knorr under the personal supervision of Louis K. Sidney, is offered at Loew's Century for the week ending November 21. It opens in one against green velvet curtains with the orchestra in the pit and 24 Chester Hale girls entering from each side in routine steps of a color rhythm dance, the colors in regular lights being 12 in. black and 12 in. yellow and in other lights changing to purple and orange. Costumes are tight bodices with feathers and headdress of feathers with leg tights. After this the curtains part on full stage with side drapes and steps in rear with back drapes parted for tableau, with the Dodge Twins (Beth and Betty) of the Follies Bergere and "A Night in Venice," framed in center, up steps. Large headdress with two bandeaus for body and long train. They go into a stately movement dance of splits and poses, ending on the steps in backward bend with backs toward audience. Curtains close on this and John Byam enters through center and sings with orchestra, "Spread Your Little Wings and Fly Away." Curtains part again on full stage revealing the Dodge Twins on again in white bird costumes with white headpieces and tail feathers. They go into a novelty dance with a backdrop of a large tree with nest in the woods. One whistles "Charmaine" as a solo. Then they go into a bird act of one whistling love calls to the other, who is bashful (similar to Arriot Brothers). They finish with going off stage and appearing as birds up in a nest of a tree at back — gunshot is heard, they duck, comedy work ending with whistling in joy at escape. Curtains close and 24 girls come on dressed as penguins and do a comic dance, imitating movements of that antarctic bird, with buzz blowers making a comic "razzing" noise as they move against a silver and blue (ice effect) drop. This finishes another drop with a "Craay House" painting used, against which Walter Nisson comes out and does a number of novelty stunts on odd looking cycles. After this the girls come on in routine in yellow costumes and bare legs. The curtains part to full stage with back drops of green figures on yellow and as the girls form a tableau the Devil Foursome, adagio dancers, one girl and three men, come on and go into their work. The finale is furnished by several show girls in novelty costumes entering from each side in rear on steps and walking down 6tage, with the Dodge Twins bringing up rear, and all in a posed tableau for the final curtain, with orchestra and organ Omaha Orpheum Week Ending November 20 Herb Larimer and Marion Hudson, cyclists, the former as a clown, delight Omaha Orpheum visitors this week with their act. Larimer wears baggy trousers and generally loose fitting clothes. Miss Hudson appears in white tights and a green plumage skirt. Their individual as well as their joint riding of cycles is much applauded. The cycling act follows the playing of "Just a Little Closer" by "Eddie" and his R K Olians or(Continued on next page, column 2) George Givot George Givot, who might be called the "it" boy of the stage, most appropriately, has returned to Chicago, where the fans who gathered to his "tuneful wit" have again flocked to his standard, and he's the same George that made such a hit here a number of years ago, such a hit, that he went to Broadway and — well, Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book" held him between its covers for two years, years in which he didn't get more witty, we might say, but polished that which he had (it's a gift) to a high lustre. For a while he was with Ziegfeld, and after an absence of three years (we've found that's the exact number) he's back again, as strong as ever. Instead of calling him the "it" boy, however, perhaps the title of Pied Piper would be more exact, for do they flock when his name appears on the "schedule?" They do! Possible Uses Of New Method Far Reaching Lew White and Ted Fiorito Make Successful Experiment from Several Miles Away There is nothing new — etc., but occasionally something pops up that is of unusual interest and may be placed, it seems, in a category not wholly "conforming" to the old adage. Recently, in an experiment completed through the cooperation of the telephone company, who furnished ftie re_ mote control apparatus used, it was found possible to make a phonograph record without the artists being present in the studio. It is reported to have been a highly successful effort, and one that opens up a vista of possibilities that are interesting to conjure with. -T| Lew White, organist, and Ted Fiorito and his band were the central figures in the plan. Following several tests at the studio of the recording company, White began the master record of "When the Organ Played at Twilight," and, at a given moment, he dropped out, and Fiorito's band took up the number from there, playing from a location several miles away. This dropping out and coming in was continued throughout the duration of the song, and on a number of occasions, they played the song simultaneously. Although this attempt at recording by remote control was made on the new Durium "paper" record, it has been mentioned and is expected that there may be a possibility that many of the wax records will also be made in this manner. The control is handled entirely by a system of headphones. Many uses are seen for this particular method of making records. It might be said, in doing some of the "conjuring" that was heretofore mentioned, that for one thing, there is a chance for a great diversity of selections. The fact that the artists need not come to the studio might mean that instead of making a special effort to make a record, all that would have to be done would be to "horn in" on one of their regular programs somewhere and select what was needed. Among that many examples of what may be expected is the equipping of the schools of the country with a series of records which could only be made by {Continued on page 52, column 3) UNIFORMS FOR HOUSE ATTACHES COSTUMES FOR STAGE PRESENTATIONS BROOKS 1437 B'wsy N.Y.City