Publix Opinion (Feb 4, 1928)

2 IRVIN TALBOT WINS PROMOTION Irvin Talbot, musical director of the Paramount Theatre since its opening, has been promoted to an important exeeutive position in the Music department of .Publix Theatres Corporation and has been suceceeded by Adolphe Dumont, formerly conductor at the Rivoli. Mr. Talbot, whose personality and musicianship. have won him a host of friends and admirers among Paramount patrons, 1s recognized as one of the outstanding figures in his profession. He came to New Your four years ago as assistant to Hugo Riesenfeld and was appointed first conductor at the Rivoli. Previously he| had served as musical director} at the Missouri. Theatre in St. | Louis, his native city where he received his symphony training | in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. While at the Rivoli he He Dares You Not to Laugh The inimitable comedian, Harry Burns, will appear at the Theatre next week ‘in John Murray Anderson’s de Sao see <9 zn PUBLIX OPINION, WEEK OF FEBRUARY 4ra, 1928 Rai SaNSIaAT | HARRY BURNS | 4|. Russell B. Moon, Paramount PUBLIX AGENTS WIN LLOYD CASH Publix press .agents and managers were prominent on the list of those who won Harold Lloyd prizes for the best Suggested theatre campaign for *““Speedy.’’ Among the eleven who won $50. prizes were the following Publix men: ey | DOROTHY NEVILLE THE tainment atres Cory on the ste tre for ahi if Theatre, New York Osear Doob, Michigan Theatre, | Detroit | Vernon Gray, Metropolitan | Theatre, Boston. George J. Meredith, Saenger | | fast a ee Theatre, New Orleans tion are ste: Roy L. Smart, Rivoli Theatre, fina Imb Greenville, S. C. ’ this eeurnt «Royalty Heard Her High Notes pews: Ojeda and In for six years a Four seasons ago a charming|in their nats young prima donna flashed on many countri the Broadway horizon and WOO | Central pase: instant favor through the me| engagement Eugene J. Zukor Joins Publix wrote the musical scores of several of the biggest current film productions, including ‘‘Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,’’ | lightful stage show, ‘‘Milady’s Fans.’’ For more than twenty years Harry Burns has been with dium of her voice and personhe, ality in that year’s edition of | Were preseneg “The Greenwich Village Fol-| leading wi lies.’”? She struck such a re “The Thundering Herd,’’|Stopping performances “North of 36,’’ ‘‘The Last Laugh,’’ ‘‘Aloma of the South | Seas’’ and ‘‘Variety.”’ Rae Eleanor Ball In ‘‘Milady’s Fans”’ Prominently featured in John Murray Andeéerson’s Publix presentation, ‘‘Milady’s Fans,’’ at the Theatre this week, are Rae Eleanor Ball, Violinist, | and Michael Ball, cellist, both of whom are well known to patrons of coneert and high elass vaudeville im which they have been appearing for several years as Rae Eleanor Ball and Brother in ‘‘ Moments Musieal.’’ Miss Ball studied in Europe with Leopold Auer, the famous virtuoso who is also well known as the teacher of Jascha Heifetz. Mr. Ball was formerly proprietor of a music store in Cleveland, where he and his sister now reside, and has frequently appeared with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. Actor Claims Golf Helps His Stage Work IONE spe ara ena Saal English language. years of his stage career have «espe pheum and Pantages theatre eireuits and playing many of the larger independent vaudeville theatres. So great hag been his popularity on the vandeville stage that he made four and five tours on each of the circuits. Newspaper erities all over the United States have declared Harry Burns one of the foremost funsters on the American stage. J. Brooks Atkinson, |dramatie editor of the New York Times and a confirmed vaudeville hater, passed the Palace Theatre, New York, one afternoon of the Italian eomedian’s appearance there and decided he would see why the erowds were squirming their way into that ‘‘vulgar’’ vaudeville theatre. The performance bored the fastidious Atkinson until Harry Burns and Company appeared. From the moment the Italian comedians started until they finished Mr. Atkinson was in one continuous spasm of laughter. The next Sunday in his page in the Times he gave Harry Burns, the Italian vaudeville comedian as fine a review as any stage performer could ask for. Assisting Burns in ‘‘ Milady’s Fans’’ is Tony de Luca who has been with the former for many years. To see Harry Burns is to be assured of many hearty wholesome laughs and the Pyblix stage show in which he appears is another of John Mur sre ernie ae ante ts eT I = Late . = a $C PEM” ES. m 7 Sarre Te SESEDURLEESAIOAEEEEERSUENEREREn 2ST RERRNSRETTE TT EMRE IR RINT ATS Oe NMS Sey athasetieg oe ae eae Though considered the outstanding Italian comedian on the American stage, Harry Burns, who is appearing at the Theatre in the Publix revue “‘Milady’s Fans,’’ is willing to foresake the bright lights for a position as a golf professional. For more than twenty years Burns has arduously pursued the game of golf. He claims that the game plus regular hours keeps him fit in spite of the changes of food; water and sleeping arrangements that he, like all other stage artists, has to endure. His performance at the ....... Theatre has stopped every show so far. The broken English of an Italian, the dialect that he employs, coupled with his actions in the hilariously funny skit, is the surest cure for blues , and if any one in (name of city) shit Maisie ¢ eorkeous, fast fails to get a laugh from his|™0Ving hits that have proven funny tacties he’d better see a| themselves so popular in (name ‘doctor. of town.) er eeeee Re LONGO OO his humorous sketches in which he employs the dialect of an Italian who is just learning the Sixteen been spent touring the Or that was stretched across the tre, tr Jing double faced, | GENE ZUKOR Eugene J. Zukor, son of Adolph Zukor, President of the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, has joined the theatre management staff of Publix Theatres Corporation, aecording to an announcement made this week by Sam Katz, President of Publix. Zukor served in the navy during the war and since that time has been affiliated with various departments of Paramount, his last position being assistant to the president. Fully conversant with all angles of the production and sales end of the picture business he purposes now to make an intensive study of the various phases of exhibition and theatre operation and to become permanently associated with Publix Theatres as a mem. ber of the staff. Cut-Out Latters Got “Beau Sabreur”’ Plug Manager Guy A. Kenimer strung cut-out letters spelling out “Beau Sabreur” — across the street to advertise that picture at the . Publix Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, Fla. These letters were three feet high and were hung on a wire [9 |The Greenwich Village Fol-} 1927.” ) jal battle for her services, Car 2) jhave appeared in his produc| | The younger} i settled in Oa | theatres for si |while New ¥e ied by their 8 sponsive chord among her public and became so popular that Earl Carroll, producer of ‘‘ Vanities,’” and the producers of| Texas Gu a ; : 4 lies’’ became involved in a leg roll claiming that ‘she was to jtion. The ‘‘Follies’’ producers | |were awarded the services of | the brilliant young singer and | for the next four years she! scintillated as one of the| brightest stars in that produc-| tion’s constellation. ) Dorothy Neville, the young singer in question, on her re-| cent return from Europe, was/ literally besieged with offers from Broadway producers. | John Murray Anderson. pro| ducer of the Publix production, | Milady’s Fans,’’ which is the! leading stage attraction this! iweek at the Theatre, | }and under whose direction Miss | Neville first . achieved success | in “‘The Greenwich Village Fol. | lies,’’ finally perstiaded her to| accept a contract to appear in| ithis production on its tour of | the leading cities of the eoun-| try. : Miss Neville might be termed | a real blueblood im the field of music. Her grandmother, Jaequeline Neville, was at one time the foremost star at the Royal Opera House in Madrid. Miss | | Neville was born in Seville! where her father, Georges de| l’Horme, was a noted artist, | Later the father took the fam.| ayn England where he event. ually was knighted bh j Edward VIL At ‘a dae nine Dorothy sang before Roy-| | alty at Buekingham Palace, | Following a long term of study ‘In Franee and Italy, she came to this country with her parents at the age of fifteen and | lifornia and in San | copy of “Py Do you | away after Many Pw the field Ww copies, vi ately ime cover-files, | available at formation — department Several re received, @ Opinion be. top or af the posts | binder, @ publicity 4 made ir file-books . holes them DOU ; street opposite the Florida thea The letters were painted white | and when a spot was thrown on them at ni cernible for five blocks away. ght, it was plainly dis The letter display was equall ead from either F sa a approach—be {concert tour followed 'rancisco, as a childsinge made her professional delet ti Kolb & Dill’s ‘The High Cost of Loving.’’ She achieved sueh Success on the West Coast that | yj she came Kast and continued | er hs her vocal studies, meanwhile tony filling a short engagement with | ¢ventt the Chicago Opera Company, A|one and it | wich was whil i