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SPOT!
by Francis ^Beech
ly the entire Spotlight assembles before the microphone. His "pupils" include "Ikey Leshinsky," otherwise Irving Kennedy, "Tony Spaglarini," Harold Peary; "Sassy Little," Bobbe Deane; "Bennie Fishel," Bennie Walker; "Ishud Sockitoyou," Capt. Bill Royle; "Spud" McGuire," Ted Maxwell, and the Coquettes, Annette Hastings, Imelda Montague and Marjorie Primley.
Kennedy is a lyric tenor who was a comedian with the Marx Brothers before it was discovered that he could send romantic shivers up and down the spines of ladies who heard him through the microphone. In the Spotlight Revue, Irving sings a pretty ballad now and then, but he gets a chance to clown as Ikey.
Harold Peary, dialectician and "heavy," alternates before the microphone as villian or comedian — < never hero. He is one of the few comedians who never has wanted to be a tragedian and has been heard to declare that he wouldn't play Hamlet if someone would give him a lot in
Denmark. He does sing though — a baritone — and how!
Capt. Bill Royle, who plays the Jap pupil also is apt at dialect. A flyer who won his spurs in the World War, he is a supreme story-teller, and impersonates Britishers, Irishmen, darkies and Orientals with equal ease.
Bobbe Deane and Bennie Walker are a pair who hold the firm affection of the radio audience through the variety of voices both of them use. As little Bennie and Sassy Little of the "School Days" skit, they are the enfants terrible of Professor Knicklebine's domain, and numerous other characters in the Spotlight skits and black-outs.
Ted Maxwell and Bernice Berwin are another popular NBC pair who add interest to the Spotlight Revue. As Jack and Ethyl they appear in a brief melodrama written by Carlton E. Morse. The present series is called "Shipwreck Tales." Ted, being a versatile soul, hops from his "Spud McGuire" characterizations in
"School Days" to the picturesque Jack of the Let's Get Associated dramas.
Two singing groups of Spotlight vie with each other in the affections of the NBC audience. The Coquettes, warble in charming harmony, and the Cycol Four, composed of Gwynfi Jones, Irving Kennedy, Harold Dana and Leslie Brigham, offer characteristic ditties in four-part arrangements.
The mention of music inevitably brings up Walter Beban, director of the Spotlighters band, "saxophonist extraordinaire" and creator of the burlesque "drammers" for which Cecil Underwood, master of ceremonies of the Associated Spotlight Revue, finds such an array of descriptive adjectives. Whether it be the life of Napoleon or the sad career of Trilby which Walter dramatizes, the result is just the same, and a trail of laughter follows every effort. But does Walter care? Not at all, according to Cecil. Walter goes right on trying to beautify Spotlight — just stop him if you dare!
• Up goes the curtain on the Associated Spotlight Revue! Songs, acts of all descriptions, burlesque "drammers" that are rib-tickling, and an assortment of cleverly arranged musical compositions and interpretations by Walter Beban, director of the band (the gentleman with the magic wand at the extreme right) . A merry gang, the Spotlighters!