Publix Opinion (Feb 11, 1928)

MANDOLIN TALKS WHEN HE PLAYS Se Se Sarnia on Has Had Brilliant Musical Career The mandolin, generally regarded as merely the chief plaything or “weapon” of the college boy, has come into its own in the} capable hands of an artist who has been hailed by many critics as the greatest mandolin player of all time. He appears as a featured principal in Frank Cambria’s rollicking Publix stage pro theatregoer of this city has either seen him on the stage or heard him over the radio. This mes and there are many competent musical critics who have acclaimed him as just as great an artist as Fritz Kreisler himself. | In fact Mr. a few years ago, was recognized as one of the best violinists in his native Italy. Almost literally, however, he fell in love with the mandolin and in his study of this instrument api plied his violin knowledge to such i a degree that he is able to produce effects such as probably no other 7 mandolin player has been able to Fe obtain. Incidentally, the young Neapolitan artist received a diploma from. the -Conservatory in Grenoble, France, as the first prize in a contest of mandolinists which that institution fostered and which mandolin players from all over Europe entered. It was P. Marion Crawford, the famous author and diplomat, who was responsible for the coming of Mr. and his brother (a guitar soloist of note) to America. Crawford heard them in Sorrento and was so delighted with their concert that he sought their aequaintance and urged them to TT an teacecclhvercscsehoarerereeee “‘Taka-Chance’”’ Artist duction, ‘“‘Taka-Chance,”’ at the Lae NNa GR et Theatre next week. In accordance with the policy of “‘Taka-Chance” week, the iden| tity of this mandolin virtuoso | cannot be revealed. However, there is little doubt that every merist of melody has often been | called the Kreisler of mandolinists | } | TLOMAY. BATLEY | it | | 7 | Pretty Singer and Dancer Playing in Jack Partington’s “Steps and Steppers,” Photo by Nathan “Get Your Man” Leap Year Gag Of course, Leap Year suggests publicity stunts. Here’s lone that Oscar Doob worked in 'Detroit, being very apropos | because the Capitol Theatre was lplaying Clara Bow in ‘‘Get | Your Man.’’ The Leap Year tieup was | started off with an eight column lstrip of stills from ‘‘Get Your |Man’’ in the Detroit Times. The 'eaption explains the news-feajture: ‘‘Clara Bow Gives Leap |Year Hints On How To Get |Your Man.’’ With this layout }ran a loeal news story telling jabout Detroit girls going to |form a Get-Your-Man Club and las their emblem would wear ‘the Clara Bow hat (now on the} imarket and nationally adver itised.) This was followed up TWIN BEAUTIES ALWAYS KIGKING: Only On Stage Though Where Their Dancing | Thrilled Broadway | | | | | | ' Three t When Ned Wayburn was en-| gaging principals for his produc| had Won tion, ‘‘Maiden Voyage,” two years | as singles : ago he had recommended to him as a trio, Appe a sprightly pair of twin sisters | bria’s big a whose forte was singing, dancing | Take-Ck ce,” and personality. He took noj } featured at th chance in letting them escape and | atre next e immediately signed them for his| | This trio. v show in which they were one of | } and comics a the outstanding features. | plaudits So clever were the girls that | the Messrs. Shubert took a chance | lof every |past three ye and signed the team of good-| Photo by Nathan [seen them ali z looking sisters for his ‘Passing Talented Dancer / you have 4] Show of 1926.” Later when the | In Publix Show |t#king no chan girls scored an emphatic hit in een their perfor this big production the Messrs Shubert realized that they had not been taking any great chances at developed by Gertrude Hoffman, | to appear in plays a featured part in JOSZ | Wa nities Pain getting the girls under contract. Grab Bag,” now touring the Pub-| . % Since then the two girls, both graduates of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in New Orleans, have been achieving unequivocal success in vaudeville and in mus ical productions. This being “‘Taka-Chance” week at the Theatre the names of the two talented girls cannot be divulged. Suffice to say, however, that they are as clever as they are good-looking, and they are endowed with plenty of pulchritude, It is reasonable to say that those who see and hear thi: lovely duo in Frank Cambria’s big Publix stage production, “Taka-Chance,’’ will exit from the theatre vowing that they took no chance at all. SEEK STAGE LAURELS! | i} year’s engagement in “Artists and i that they are | : aay. Ferral de Wees, the most tal-|Chance,”’ ented of the many talented girls | chances wh lix Circuit. The little dancer was |tion they associated with Miss Hoffman |have also ap when that famous dancer started |(jir]’’ and in @ to organize the dancing troupes; . . ail which have since gained internaextravaga : tional fame. | entertainme Miss de Wees recently closed a | calibre is e Models.” Prior to that she had} appeared for one solid year at the Hippodrome, London, in “The Leap Year Show.” She also had a six months’ engagement at the Moulin Rouge, Paris. In “Jazz | Grab Bag” Miss de Wees appears | with her brother, Paul, one of the | many talented youngsters developed by Gus ‘Edwards, and who recently closed a two years’ vaudeville engagement at the head of his own band. priced acts Publix Cire Played v ze ¥ An opera roles with : companies will) prises of the lix stage pre } staged by it opens at inext week. Chance” : many sur ii program, the = known singer € a Ss * come to the United States where; with loéal girls wearing the they would Dee a broader field | hats—for newspaper art. The fr tne artitry. Passports were | gic 4g be Clara Bow's guests with an introduction to a promilat a showing ‘‘Get Your Man” nent member of the United States |—_that furnished the direct tie That he is be gleaned addition to pearances he at the C 7 Senate who was planning a private | eoneert for the entertainment of | his friends in Washington. So great was his success on the oc) easion of this, his first appearance in America, that he was immediately engaged by William Morris out on tour with Harry Lauder. An engagement in the 1925 edition of George White’s “Seandals’’ followed, at the termination of play several weeks at Hrauman’s Egyptian Theatre Before his return to New York he was engaged by Warner Brothers to be seen and heard in the Vita the Hollywood Breakfast Club of the Navy Wilbur who, at the conclusion of his solo, expressed the desire to meet and shake the hard of one whom he considered one of the world’s greatest coneert artists. Mr. tinction Strand has the unique dis of having played at the Theatre in New York fif teen weekly engagements within a single year. He is also well known as a Victor recording artist, his f records being chiefiy confined to his own compositions. Go West Young Man! Ed Olmstead, home office publicity and advertising genius, left last week for a three weeks’ vacation in that Sunny California. Ed and the Mrs. and the Olmstead heiress, Barbara, will boat through the Panama Canal and rail back to the metropolis. with a camera, pair of binoculars, a sea-going golf cap and a knapsack of sea-sick pills. as a Vaudeville headliner and sent | which he crossed the continent to} in Hollywood. | phone. During his sojourn inj} Hollywood he was the guest of where he was heard by Secretary | Ed is all set! ; up. |} A leading dance hall arlranged a ‘‘GetYour-Man”’ |danece—girls to bring the boys, | lask for dances, ete. A Clara’ |Bow contest—resemblanee idea |—was held in connection with | the dance, Hat people furnished | ihats for prizes. This idea ean! ibe effected similarly in any} | town playing ‘‘Get Your Man.’’ | Acrcbatie Sensations | | Take Many Chances | One of the best European |acrobatie teams to invade this (country forms one of the major |question marks in the east of |<*Takea-Chance,”’ Frank Cam\bria’s scintillating Publix sur|prise show which is slated to |appear at the......... Theatre inext week. For twelve years |they were a sensation in the imusie halls of London, Paris, |Berlin and Vienna and for the ilast two years have achieved igreat suecess in this country, 'The chanees they take daily in breaking .their necks are far igreater than any chances local ‘theatregoers will take in visiting the .. Theatre to see this big annual Publix sur‘prise produetion. Some of the Washington beauties who stenographers and filing clerks in to embark on a theatrical career training at the Allan K. Foster Sc UNCLE SAM’S LOSs iS PUBLIX S Bevy Of Pretty Maids Quit Government For Stage Work | A seore of former employees im the government offices of Washington, D. C©., who have been selected by Allan K. Fos| ter, producer of the Foster Girl | dancing ensembles, arrived in| New York last week. | None of these girls is pro-| Bes ited, fa They are now in New York in}ly an office hool, prior to appearing in Publix been Dp 4 P. O. Staff Photog rapher assistant to . Stage productions. Photo by Nathan Great Ds One of the cers that } : Publix stage” in Frank Chance” ithe. ..0 ie For this no names form with chance, however, 18 fe Pair,” and Fair,"’ They | cesses, x] * T |many re took no ¢ see ‘Tak juit their jobs as typewriters, | the government offices last week | Charles producer of Pa ; tions. Charle but he hag st 9 a position tm HOWS GAIN | wouia be ; Rose | fessional dancer, but they have | ‘Way OUT ; e heen selected for their potenlix stage shi tialities and will be trained at | Charley: ‘ Foster’s expense for later ap pearance in Publix eireuit stage 80 Y units. The period of instruc.| tion for thes@ girls will econ. sume fr m ten to twelve weeks, the end of which time they will be awarded two-year eone| tracts at at salaries considerably higher than those t¢ in the hey received government employ,