Publix Opinion (Mar 19, 1928)

I re in for it in way flirting with Hach girl then patter. The last oes not want any that they dance ' all parade to se to “You've Been *ve Been Thinking.” Band then plays a Vilkinson. Clowns, two of contortionists and e stage, amaze and dy capers. re. then: pulls Omedy number 0 ee] atic dance as her of the cleverones in the busi ance that’s sure » idividuality Girl” has every1is number over and for an encore S she pushes a he proposes to e tells her /he will On if he will say Dance” a very 1 show. es on playing ion Man.” Some very funny recitation of the iyed by the diffe‘is yery funny and me very funny) rand plays hot) tordion, stopping! while to tell some. i | ent of “So Tired’”’| flip-flops, hand| Organ “Varsity | ags with the| She does a) is, an exception-| dancer does a! 4 ; land George Shivers, ap Year, Louise! Two” with the! jand the grand finale of which will | | angement, one of | ° imount, ‘ |New Haven; Metropolitan, Bos-| lton; Shea’s Buffalo, Buffalo;| 0) Publix Theatres Corporation, T0 COAST § Pretty Texas Girl Singer of Merit “Leap Year Fancies” Has Real “It” Girl Louise Ploner, the ‘“Individuality Girl,’ who will be seen in Moris Petroff’s latest Publix Stage show, “Leap Year Fancies” at the -«++..Theatre, the week of..... is just what her name implies. Miss Ploner was practically born on the stage as her father and mother were musical comedy stars, and’she inherited her parents’ talent. She is individual in her mannerism, and has a way all her| own of singing her many songs. In “Leap Year Fancies’ she appears in one of the most novel costumes ever designed for the stage, and if every girl looked so wonderful there wouldn’t be any need for) having “‘Leap Year.” With Louise Ploner, in “Leap ‘Year Fancies” are Patti Moore and Sammy Lewis, Earl LeVere, Tum-! bling Clowns and the Gould Debu-| tamte Dancers. | Establish House Trene Taylor Nathan Photo Bringing with it Irene Taylor, | Songland’s sweetest singer, ““Pagoda Land,” a Mort Harris-Publix Theatre. Miss Taylor will radiate her charming | Texas personality and sunny voice in the manner theatre audiences in this city have long waited for. | The Rivoli Service Club, the personnel of which is made up of! employees of the Rivoli Theatre, | eae a é |New York City, has established aj , aan jnst he iced of her ihouse organ called “The Rivoli| teens this vivacious miss has won Spotlight.” It is a breezy little) Wide favorable comment. She aphearth-side pamphlet, eoncerned| Peared tn isis, ani clack a | mostly with news of the stage and|* eulel ateia he Windy City | screen attractions at that theatre, ale the rari of be Vin A ity | and is spiced with organizational) V°T® @PPeased. most uae i : : riltesare : | solid years: were spent by ‘ Miss | | tid-bits. The editorial staff is made Taylor touring the mid-western | theatres of the Balaban and Katz Corporation. A year was spent on the stages of her home town, Dallas, where she appeared with Jack Gardner, A Victor artist of no/| little merit this young tady seems) | 4 (up of Edward Walker, John Rice, | Francis X. Kelley, Wallace Jerome Dance Champs’ Route | 'to have won the approval of au-/| diences wherever she has been! presented. The winners of the national dance championship in which | ,couples from more than fifty) |American cities are competing, | Portland Opening | | Another link was added to the |Publix chain last week when the/ on April 10th, will play the fol-|new Portland ae ibe Aaa lowrs Lise ¢ 4 «the . Oregon, was formally opened to lowing pean rete a : alee |the public.. Eddie Hitchcock | ai bald OF hk at istaged an opening campaign that had local theatregoers primed for’ the big imaugural performance. | |The new house seats 3,500, The) ‘opening screen attraction was | Bebe Daniels in “Feel My Pulse.” 'The stage feature was “A Merry 'Widow Revue.” | ‘be held at: Roseland in New York Michigan, Detroit; Indiana, Indianapolis; Ambassador, St. Louis; and Chicago, Tivoli and Uptown, Chicago. Who finally gets) “Yes,” does a stop. he stairs with him| “Out. This is an| It dance as the} Derfect as they) the stairs to She is) e Gould Debu-) is wedding veil, m the bottom | all the way to. rs where a can-) i sings “Today | the Gould Dancesmaids in beau | stage show “Red Hot Capers,” at the.......... Theatre. i Ta perfect unison, the Gould girls dance and play at the same time. | Page Volstead! Here's “The Cocktail Shake” The Cocktail Shake, a new novelty dance, is being introduced by | the Eight Clever Gould Dancers in C. A. Niggemeyer’s Publix| Dave Gould, who produced and conceived the dances for this show, must be given the credit for this novelty. With rings on their fingers and bells on their toes, these clever girls do a dry} cocktail shake that even the most rabid prohibitionist would enjoy. | This is but one of the many highlights of this Publix stage pro-| duction which includes Clifton & DeRex, Janet Sisters, Hutchings |& Holloway and Helen Kennedy. WEEK’S OFFICIAL ROUTE LIST Baia Paramount Building, New York, Week of March 19th, 1928. * pti | “Pagoda Land” “Leap Year Fancies”’ “Red Hot Capers” No, . 17 TAGE SHOWS UNIT SHOWS WILL HAVE A THIRTY-THREE WEEKS ROUTE AROUND COUNTRY The long cherished dream of a Publix unit route which would span the continent will be realized this coming Friday, March 24th, when Frank Cambria’s stage production, “A Merry Widow Revue,” opens at the Metropolitan Theatre, Los Angeles. When the Felicia Sorel Dancing Girls prance out on the Met/ropolitan stage for the first time there will be thirty-three of the largest and finest theatres in the country simultaneously playing Publix stage productions. The opening of “A Merry widow Revue” in Los Angeles will add to the Publix unit show wheel the final spoke which will result in throwing off entertainment sparks in the largest cities ‘of the country. The whirring of the Publix || wheel will be echoed from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Texas to the Canadian border. A little more than two years ago when the wheel started to rotate it had twelve spokes embracing New York, Boston, Buffalo, | Detroit, three theatres in Chicago, Kansas City, “Sti: Louis, Memphis, Dallas and Atlanta. Since that time the scope of Pub ix stage show entertainment has heen widened by leaps and HOT SHOTS FROM New York tomorrow enroute to ‘leading woman ithe $5,000 first prize in the Para-| Swag,’ is to be used as George! bounds. The greatest advance. has been made in the last five }months. During that time such new theatres as the Denver in | Denver, the Alabama in Birmingjham, the Worth in Fort Worth, the Seattle in Seattle and the HOLLYWOOD LOTS | Portland in Portland. flee Hes OW B@ BUI = Simultaneously with the open ling of the ynit shows in Los By ARCH REEVE | Angeles, the Minnesota in Min(Special Wire to Publix Opinion) | neapolis will have a gala inauguHollywood, -Cal., Mar. 18th,|ta! performance with the Pub1928—Glara Bow left the hospital|lix stage show, “Treasure Ships” last week after her recent opera-| as the feature Stage attraction. tion and is recuperating rapidly at/Tn addition to the opening of her home. Miss Bow's next picture. | these néw. theatres the Publix “Ladies of the Mob,” is scheduled | > /S° i idee pelea race to start in three weeks, under the) Loew agreement, consummated direction of William Wellman. | recently, enables Publix to puts POD CN iEe | its stage shows in Washington, Anne Nichols, author of ‘“Abie's| Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Irish Rose,"" and William De Lig-) Columbus, Syracuse and Kansas nemare, ber manager, lett: Holly-! City. With the Publix wheel in wood yesterday for New York to) Pith eharaei et week encl : star: rehearsals of ‘“Abie’s Chil-! Pe nibhiles eceuaabitancas gretad dren,”’ scheduled to open in April Production will be on tour for “ at the Republic Theatre. The title thirty-seven weeks from the time of the sequel is tentative. | it first graces the boards at the | Olympia Theatre, New Haven Louls D. Lightom, studio execu-) gp te ee egg tive, and Hope Loring, scenarist, | bee the RIEIE, at gracefully folds up will arrive in New York tomorrow 2 the Howard Theatre, Atlanta. enroute for Europe on a vacation. Included in these thirty-seven |They were formerly the famous) weeks are four lay-offs between iwriting x rgh and Syracuse, Chi| cago and Minneapolis, MinneapAdolphe Menjou will arrive in| lis and Seattle, and Los Angeles 7 en and Denver, respectively, — Europe, having completed “A Date. f with a Duchess,” said to be one) aa 5 Clever Comedienne of his best pictures. Ue se can | e DO f al ) Sally Blame will be Jack Holt's! In Red Hot Capers”’ in), Zane Grey’s! If you feel out of sorts, come tO) THO... oe 4 Theatre, and: seq |Helen Kennedy in Cc, A. Niggemeyers latest Publix stage show “Red Hot Capers” and she will drive vour blues away. Little Miss Kenmedy is a finished performer and comedian. .She hag @ knack of making everything she Says sound funny and besides js gifted with a very sweet voice. Helen Kennedy has been on the stage all her life, and she re team which adapted | Pittsbu “Wings.” H i “The Vanishing Ploneer,’’ Rena Vale; the twenty-cightyear-old farmer Los Angeles ho-) siery saleswoman, is the winner of mount-Photoplay Magazine $15,000, Idea Contest. Her story,| Bancroft's next starrime vehicle. | There were forty-nine other prizes) awarded to the best of forty thou wWoeae Uses sand contestants. This affords an) to tell how lomg thatis. One thing opportunity for local angle publicis certain her life has not been ity tle-ups whem the picture is re spent im vain because she spreads leased, ijoy and happiness to her audiences,