Variety (Jan 1936)

/■ Wednesday, January 29» 1936 VARIETY HtllSE REVIEWS VARIETY 19 STATE, N. y. (BURNS AND ALLEN UNIT) New York, Jan, 24. Pear Santa Claus (if any) ; There are 336 days till Christmas, but If you are taking . orders early this year, please wrap up 52 iiice Burns and Allen units for delivery to New Torlc. Take the current State show and multiply It by 52, and then you will have somethlnffi Simply follow the State's recipe Burns and Allen with Ben Bliie^ Cardini, Stbne and. Veriion, Giene Marvey and Jacques Benard in front of the house band on the stage, Let Burns and Allen open " with some comedy introductions and hay6 Marvey follow' with some tenorliij? that ptits everybody In scoring positipri.^,: Follow with Ben. Blue's pantomime/, plus Mary Blue to lehid It eomo /class, and thien bring ' back Burns and Allen to dance and -mugi^ . with Blue for the, "kind of laughs that can't be found in a jokefile. "With Burns and. Allen jointly :Stepplng with the flhest (sccentrlc dancer^ of his day, you win have to go ba<ik a loilg way to find a more audience proof piece of business. Georgle, who . hasn't been on the hoof since Dr; Pantages took down the'sWingfle In Salt Lake City,was pufflng like, a big, bad wolf; oh the-, fifth .show Vt\ds^. Biit .he blewi. tbei. bpiase down,-. ' ■ : .xy-:. v; Change the pace with Gaydlni, who takes It slow -and qaoy wh'U'B the • peasaiits .try . tp unravel nis'.ijaltt'' work..' iBut they can't.. ^Bte'is too" good, Then give 'eni Stone ?i;hd;;Verhon in swift, adagio with fWo' gent's tossing outcurves With a lady.' And Burns and Allen for tlie Hhish in a routine that's fllet mignon compac'ried^ to 'Lamb Chops.', Bring the . picture screen down quickly, fpir that's the only thliig -that, can follow. Not too much production, . Santa. As at the .State> let them look at the actors instead of the scenerj'. And keep the stage well lighted in white, as all gopd. comedy shows should ;be lighted, so they, cin pee what's going, on without i;uei3sing. Hold' it all down to. BO rrvinutes, as per the State, and you wlU, have a show that\s vaudeville through and through, and ehtertainment iall the way. The box office will take care of the rest. Of course, the bookers will help. After all, somebody?a-.|fPt, to write the names In the book. Packed, delivered and assenibledi such a unit should . cost $10,000. A .lot of money. You say $10,000 bills won't bring that 'vatidevillo come-, back,' T.-hlch is liter than a Long Island train in a snowstorm, because ' they're too much for a sufficient number; of .theatres . to .carry.?. Right. But the bther' theattes are another story and ^.nother prohlem. Give the theatres tloat can pay and play 'em 62 shows like thei' one prescribed, , and that will solve the problem for one strata of vaudeville, anyhow. The StatiB will have a $40,000 week with this $10,000 shciw. which is better than $15,000 for $5,000. You're the last resort, the final hope, Sa.nta. The boys, have tried everything else. 'They've tried making it look like anything but vaudeville,-and It hasn't helped. They've had their tea leavies read. .They've taken up religion. They even gave the air to Martin Beck. All for naught. "What they need Is a Santa Claus. And after all, you do owe a debr of gratitude to vaudeville. Where was the first sleigh ride eveirglven and taken ? In the U.B.O. * So hop to It, Santa, and prove yourself a right guy. Incidentally, with $10,000 to spend, don't act like a Consressman— or a 1932 booker. For $10,000 your show will have to draw business.. Plenty. Phoney headllnerg won't do. Remember, Santa, that you can't sing tenor ;from a trombone part. Address the shows to Sid .Plermont, Bill Howard, ChavUe Freeman, Steve Trilling. Harry Kalicheim, et al. Don't bothei?'. delivering, them, kid. These boys will be glad to. go all the way up to your shop at the Pole ahd call for 'em In person. ' ' Yours, , , Bige. P.S.— 'Ah, 'Wilderness' la the picture at.the State. Do you liapnen to know any of tjie boys out in Tlollywoodr.'Santa? A. B. C, PARIS Paris,, . .18. Raymond Eaird's sax virtuosity gets past the sales resistance of a very. Frenchy audience for a. warm reception here. When caught, the A.BiC. customers wore in no mood to tolerate foreigners, and they gave the bii'd, to a couple of colored Americans earlier oh the same bill because, they sang In lingllsh, but Baird's rhythm won them over, and he rated an encore. What seismed to get theni was his fast technique, rather than his hot playing, aJthougli. the lattei Was appreciated, too. Hla number on two saxes at the same time got a good hand. . Victims of the audience's sudden spurt of patriotism-^ were Browning and Starr. So.riiebody started to yell 'Sing French' in the middle oi: one of their n'umbers. and that did It. Their last number was a mixture of French arid K:nslinh: 'D.^rling, Je Voua Ainie Boaucpup' but th.it pleased no more' than the .straight Engllpb. Balrd did what every rlist should do. who has anything to say which the audience should catch: he spoke in French—with a terrible accent, hut under^tanable. A'nd he apologized for his Freinch at the beginning of the number. Headliner is Noel-Noel, who was here a month or so ago in sohg numbers. This time he plays a sketch by. Piul ColUne embodying his popular film character, Ademal, the conscript soldier. Goes all right, but no more than that. Better are Charplni ahd Brancato, fqrmer a man with a soprano voice .and latter a tenor, who sing opera parodies, very funny and at the aktne time musically okay. Humor 'Is a ' spot o(f -color, on account, of the male soprano. Rebla, a juggler with a, bored technique, also scores. .' Alfred Plccaver, tenor of the Vienna opera, gets good billing and a fair reception. Nona Reed, English girl hlpshaker from th6 Tabarin show, goes on with Mae Elgin, toe tapper. Miss Reed's nunitber is not strong enougli to hold a vaude stage. .Other acts, ate Ypung Kee, Chineseacros,/ ' who .-close, and Jean M^irsac, wise-cracking I^'rench in<?hologlst. .. . ■• Btern. FOX, PHILADELPHIA ... Philadelphlai. Jan. 28, . Fox's stage' • sho'w" this week is, rsllghtiyv/ nndev .avei^ length, dye to presence on b'lir of 'March of Time.' Quality nfilld. Pic, 'Padidy .p^Bay' . (20,th);with' Jane With-. <jrs, "Will -bring out the. kids;..'Whethfer Jjaves will go for stage jiart of bill, ii?.' questionable. .' . ■ Show, opens .with -12 -Aristocrats appearing .before -Gurtjaf if. Shandor, bill's headliner,.:foUQws.'' Staging for appearance of. 'raclfb's midnite vlo.limst,' is notbad. SH. h&a.a,' gate which syvings open, framing -Gypsy .fiddler ^n plhk spot. ' His presencehas been f orecaist by striking; 'dhad-^ t)W.. on. back-drop." . Violinist's . pirograni ;has a quality of satneness. with most classical and seml7classieal. tunes. . No really: familiar stand' bys. included -and audience is polite rather than erithUsiastlc, Why he chooses to play with milted strings, and into the ni.ike at the same timd seems hard to figure; Background, included costunie (Gypsy) and all the rest of the build-up bulk large with Sh&ndor, who. isn't any giant -with the fiddle. He Is' accompanied, by two pianists ("not" programmed),' who have' no individual $olo material. Also with him are three . girl singers i (unprogiramnied) ' who, standing on a, platform la the rear, and looking rather well in evening gowns, vocalize In okay style. Their n\imbers are mainly background stuff for Shandbr'is own contribution.' '» Third offering is Three. Wiere" Brothers, who were with the icurrent 'Scandals' when that revue played the Met h^re recently. They use same routine and click just as solid-:, ly as in' the revue. For a finale the Aristocrats appear again (10 at the show caught Friday) doing a ballroom adagio in which five couples perform^ somie corking precision stuff. It'^ fast, intricate and easy on the eye. SHEA'S, TORONTO ' i Toronto, Jan: 25. Chiefly a laugh session.', at the Shea showshop this weelv wlth 70 minutes of fast-movirtg ^pfez In whicli clowning and mayhem take up most of the time. Eddie "Pfeabody is headlined, but a string ot talent trails after him. Tagged! 'Happy Days,' It's another Anger production which enhances that stagei'fs^rep; Peabody does his ' usual' swift manipulations on the banjo/ a swlng-em-low pop medley, on his cumbersome harp-guitar, ' some double-stopping on his violin plus bird-Imitations, and then 'whams with. 'Tiger. Rag' on banjo for -a clincher. Brought back for a curtain speech and had to. beg off. Full stage opening has the line girls emerging from a, gigantic bfed for a hi-kick routine In yeUoW pajamas, and very nice. Al White* Jr., ti'ails for a iap-eccentric and over on isnvoolli hoofology. Then Grace Perry, brunet soprano in black, for a couple of -u-arblea in 'one' and the remainder of the bill straightlaughs-. Staa-tcr has Don Cummihgg;Out fovrope spinning , and breezy .^jchatter, some new gagsing witH the pit boy-s, and a tap and rope finish rcomplete with Ijack-flips which goes " big. Then the Nonchalants, whomlssedthe Ih'st two slvows through, trunk trouble in getting here from the Roxy, N. . Y. Lota of kicking and manhandling oh tlie part df this trio, bnt the khocl<aboUt Spasm la climaxed by Hevcr risley-work and a triple-'stand that draws gasps at the topple fmisli. Chatter and easy personality aid. Medley and Duprce add to the hysteria. Peabody noxt to closing, with line gii*ls introducing by means Of banjo.s. reverse of. whicli spell.s out Peabody. Girls work hard tlxroughout the bill. ' Besides the opunin.y-, they do another routine in rhhiestone g"oen soanties, with Joan Zaprja in for a burle.squed sur-lesspolnta specialty then a slceve-drlll production nunibor that 'gets over <>.i di'-'CU'l'iif'd grace; and all on for a hot finale plus company roundup. I''ea1urp, In tho Air' (r.'ir)i StoV' Wintergarten, Berlin Berlin^ Ja,n. 17. For two generations/ thai Winter?garten has been tho best known and most popular vaude house In Germany attd today, asi In 1880, it , sails merrily along 'with straight vaude of 12 acts, only one ^how a day, except for matinees on Wednesday and Sunday. Crowded houses a,re the rule, and an appreciative capacity audience on a Monday night in the middle of Berllri'^a tempting bsilL season seems' to indicate healthy biz. Acrobats always form the base of the Wlntergarten's . popularity, not headliners. . The Flying' Codonas, great favorites here, should be topping the bill this month, but owing to Alfredo's accident two aeiasons ago at the Rlnglfng Show, Wlntergarten informed the troupe that without Alfredd the act would haves little appeal. So a substitute was found . in the . six Flying ' Artonis (four men, two' girls) arid strongly enforced by. fiV0 other acrobatic turns. ^ ^Attonia' have iiot the thrillr; Ing Qylng trapeze sensation of the Codonas, '.they contend themselves with fotu;^ aerial bars just beneath the; Wlntergarten stard,. but maii'-' age to Squeeze out lots of excitement'by. a daring double backward somersault and scores of double pirouettes from bar to., bar. IVa a i»it)lea8ing ' Other" liigM^ the current show Is a Hungarian orchestra of 24 Gypsys who .make a nicei picture on .{ the huge sti^ge ahd specialize -in .'Czardas and other native, tunes -with 'reniarkable rhythm^ consider^' ing the fact that most of boys :krei' seemingly of school age. Three' Onintos, .known . In the United States from their long association • with the Bingllng- Show, -are experts on perch and foot ladder,. especially their two-men-high on th^.pole, a gfeatstiint. '■ ^Contra and Re, comedy acrobats' some'what:' on the lines, of Collin's and Hart, have, a dandy opener*-. When the tall.lellow walks -In , -with a 'seeming dwarf,, kicks his head .off land the partner is revealed in contortionist fashion, : head down on feet.. '/Hilde Selpp and. Otto Berco, local radio 'stars, fall to .shine, except that Hilde is: a shapely, blonde , with a fair voice and -Ottoa good mimic. 014 Wlntergarten triidltlon of ptit-. ting on colored lights .to. heighten stage effects Is very much in' evidence during 'this act. Three American ' Babes do p^pp^^ acrobatic -. tumbling withgood com-^ edy business ■ plus the essential acrobatics and register strongly. Tolcawa, In Japanese make-up but halling-from this country, ekcells in hand , acrobatics ..With {he iassistance of three cute' epltzhounds, while Enimy: and Louis in clown attire play several instruments nicely. May and May, openinfiT .second part' with more gymnastics are splendid. head and. hand equilibrists, one man an unusually good contortionist. Three Veronas are good roller skaters, and Wllhelm Kunze entertains with comedy songs and patter, reminding the audience that comedians nowadays in Germany are much handicapped in ;thelr choice of material. Kay, Kay and Kay, English knockabouts and eccentric acrobats, close, v>^lth their 'Dying Swan* parody going over strong. CHICAGO Chicago, Jan. 25. Plenty of entertainment and a flood of box-oflQce strength on this bill, ^yhich is in line with the recently adopted policy of this Balaban •& Katz flagship to go to town on names and marquee strength. It has resulted in the doubling and tripling the grosses. With stage budgets of $4,000 and $5,000, the .Chicago managed an average $23,000-$27,000 weekly. By .forgetting about the budget and Increasing the purchase of stage power to $10;000, the house^has boosted its recent average gross tp $40,000 -$50;000, ^ Libby Holman and Ina Ray Hutton band share the spotlight. Miss Holmah figures as box-o.filce'at present. She demonstrated dhe could draw when she went into. the Chez Paree here and boosted that nltery back Into the winning column. And her6 !)he is doing the best stage show tradeof the town. The house was well -filled at the fourth of the five shows on Friday and indications are for a fine gross this week. Miss Holman is standing up there as 'orte' and on, her smart delivery Is givipg this audience some ID minute.s of genuine eniertalnment. Using two current, songs and then closing her act with a medley. Miss Holman has a pair of smooth a,^ silk pipe.s, but she adds to the delivery by skillful use of her hands. It's a pleasure to see a singer on the stage wl\o knows how to use her hands, after the radio singers who can only stand there with their hands glued to their sides or wrapped around a handkerchief. ^ For hotcha swing and girl stuff thero 19 still Jna Ray Hutton. A constant repeater In this town, she still retains, a load of box-olficc .strength. Steadily developing. Miss Hutton has become a shre''4d worker on the stage, handling herself, the orchestra and the other aciH on the bill to the best advantage. Hai'dworklng and willing orchestra, even playing for the Jack Pepper act and doing a biang-up' Job of it. Pepper finds himself here with his two-stooges, one femme and one man. The girl, wha is one Miss Taylor, is a knockout. Just a tiny piersOn, she makes a ■ cute appearance in kid clothes and then comes, through "With a great job. On the Other • side of the fence is Pepper's other stooge. Designed to be funny, his costume is merely, sloppy. Fortunately, Pepper Is using him to open the act and.is permitting tlie girl to save the ..situation for . closing. Peppelr, hlniself, can warble a pop song for anybody's money. He is depending too much 6n the 'stooge. He could do better pn those comedy lines himself. With a bit stronger material,, and .a better, taste, and the femme partner; Pepper has the makings of a surefire comedy two-act. It would take a little, work, but Would be -WOrth it. Opening the show after the line of girls are twp dancing acts, Dorothy CrPckei: witli her control specialty, 'and the Romoffs' and -their comedy Russian adagio, . Miss " Oroc^er's fourminute one -leg control dance Is a cinch. aiid this -time is-np exception; Gx'aee and .J^lkki Rbnioff have a;, fine . fiair for laurlesque. adagio dancing an4 top the. b.Ulk of other ajots dpi.tig.this type of work'. Make, .a' . flnfe" appearance," especially ' the woman, and come through with genuine performance. •Picture, 'Dangerous' (WB). Oold. EiWLE, PH^^ Philadelphia, . . J/. rank. Parker is star of stage biil at ' Earle this-,, week. .Radio' singer sho-ws cleisir,,.riexible voice. ■-with >dls*... tlnct enunciation an'id shrevfd . choice of numbers. ' Songs .'include only popular ballads of kind that .brought him his rep.^' Drawbacks are an un-^ easy. ., stage manner arid what ap'peirs.' tji? h^.. a^lack.;of -forceful personality •.in-;f ace, to face appearances. For a namib hls'^ reception, was little = more thanpolite. ' V That may have been, partly idue to -couple of unfortunate remarks he made .from stage.V Ohe was refierence to his radio • 'popularity'. as evidenced, in. telegrams /fronri fan^. ,Oth6'r was totally unnecjessary plugs for, radio spbrisor. li .part of Parker's air cdntract/'it would have been better taste Jiist to , be introduced as 'through courtesy 'of;,' etc.' . ttunner-iip of show brings ?3nrer.<; aid Sisters, trio 'pf girl .tuhiblers deftly combining agility ivlih Buntdr. Plenty of thfelr stuff.'. Is beau^joup. tough? It^s ffll fast, -smart and riot' too iSn'g'." ; c=--=-j i J, '\ " Rest of bill InVsludes Virginia Ba.con and „troup.e . offei^ng„ eii^etxjblf rhythm taps,. Miss Bacbn doing solo toe i*dvttintjs, arid -^aL sd-^o fcroorie^ Stbne and Lee, an above-par com' edy patter duo, ajnd ,6db HalC extemporanepus rhymester. 'Fiirii,' •Widow from; Monte Carlo' (WB). Business big.' Uobe. ■ PARAMOUNT, N, Par'a new bit band policy, tinder Bob Weltmann's' aegis, seems to be a clfcker. , A bit 'tpQ vivid' illuMratlon of this bccurred change day' (Wednesday) at 12:30 a. m. 'when a. waiting line of 2,000, fearing ■ they'd be caught at the 50c tap after ,1 p. m: (Instead ofHhe 25c gate mornings) rUahe'dv the ushera, reserves, et. a'l.; did a lit'tle phy'sical damdge to the outer premises and to themselves in the fervor of trying to get In By 2 p. m. all haa^'flnally been admitted. -"> 'Collegiate' (Par). 1^» Jhe fcatui-e and the . live eritertalnriient comprises the crack Hal Kejnp orchestra doubling.fromthie Hotel Eenus. sylvartla, plus . the Yachf Club' Boys,, who are no-w: travellngVon .a cinematic rep attained in -.'Thanks 'a Million.' Both ring the bell for. 'a flock of cigars. The KepiP music is smooth, rhythmic , jazz at its best, melodlci and riot. ' cacaphonpus, yet tempOtingllng and dance-cbmpelllng. Ho has a nice r^nge of numbers from sriiooth to hot 'with Saxy Cowell, Maxine Grey,. Bob Allen and Skimiy Ertnls ofliciating vocally. Latter, always a clicker on the air,*' on the Kemp band's Brunswick disks, arid at tfie'Pifniiay, soriiehow ' overacteid In the 'Alone' rendltlori,"^ As a result, his vocal effectiveness is mlHtat«!d against by a straining foldramatic rendition. Among the in'^ strumental highlights, Kempfs 'Bp^ lero' (Ravel) In foxtrot tempo is an outstander. Maxine Gray's three vocals register well, including 'Nasty Man' to set the Joe' Pcnner mood. The Kemps, like the Yachtsmen, work In the rising pit. Yacht Club Boyjj (Adler. Kelly, Kei-n and Mann), Open with their ABC number, encore with the campaign song, also -out of 'Thanks a Minion,' and then a hokum Rusae number, all getting over. • Their lyrics are crisp, a bit Intricate, but ever clear through seasoniscl rendition plus the good acouijtical a^r* fiistance of the Par mlUes. Complement of shorts and Don Baker at the 'console round out tiif Par's currently, good show, which should garner okay trade, judsini,' by the . Initial pace, Al>e\. ROXY, N. Y* Ed Sullivan, N, Y. Daily News columnist ■ turned actor, heads the stage bill' here this week, moving up the street a ways from Loew's Sta.te, which he played New Year's week. He didn't have much of a layoff between the two houses and Whatever draught h® has. acquired may help here, together with the riest of the show, but outside of Sullivan there isn't much to entice. The picture is weak arid the unit layout with the columrier proves only fair. Feature is 'Galling of Dan Matthews' (iCol), a slow, stream Of 35, millimeter tape. Rostrum portion runs exactly an hour; or did Friday night, and In many spots is pretty slow. Sullivan himself does okay, doing a thesp role as m.c. that's smooth v .and agreeable. The columnist has an easy ^tage presencie . and a good voice. He even goes in for a bit of sopg at the close. It's a return date lor him here. Daviei Vine Is spotted in the audience for , a crossfire . with Sullivan Aybich marks the, highest. .degree to ■which .thO entertainment thermometer"^ up here reaches this week. Sully makes a perfectly satisfactory straight 'for Vine's dialectic cracks. Some novelty Is provided by. the Special trailer of persbnallT ties of another day, about . whom Sullivan coriimjents fx'bm the side of tile. 'Stages. It's the 'Watier Under the Bridge' routine, npw standard with the,' columnist. ' ' Freddy^ Mack and . his pit crew jare bri ptage for a. change in a set;tlng -that^s adequately. stage-hUlngv Ahe^d ■ o^ the ba'rid the Gae Foster girls .dp three rbutines' arid specialty people pertorrai.' .• These include Georgle Tapps in ;a 'flashy ' tap d^ncfe; Frazee Sisters, ffom ' the niterles. In songs agreeably done, and Ella Logan. ^ Last mentioned scores well In torch' and other numbers, going, into cowgirl character for a portion of the sOng which leads into the finale; Her. 'Round and Arpund* . Is . also dorie ' in . an effective manner. Foster -line has .done much, better ^ than, currently but their rbutlrie with the big rubber balls clsn't hard to take.' . Business fairly good' Frida^' evening on first show. . Clw, MINNESOTA, MPLS. Minneapolis, Jan. .22. . .With several acts brought in to supplement Ina* Itay. HtittOn, thisacis Publix house has tlrst-class stage entert^inriient tt? offset-'any .lack of strength on ,tbe' p5rt oi its pcreeri , f e&tur^ 'Dapgei^pus' ( WB) . " In conlirast^.wi'th thd bltt£r';Cold ithat .sent' the t.thermpm^ter oiitslde tuwibllng "io-thA 35.below->zerb level, the hot rhythm ,bf the. Hutton. band and even hotter hip s-wayirig of the "Blond Miss "Hrittoh ffi Bel" tight fltiirig gpwuB -set. Welt^wJth the.. customers inside. The' band plays well effough, but Miss 'Hutton id the I'eat treat and* thti' 6i^tlC3 are ' more regaled, than. the ears. Miss Hutton makes' several' changigs of costume and 'eaoh gown, -as worn by her, is more. blood-heating than Its predecessojr. ... ' ,.'_ •■'. .;MIbs Hutton. Bwlrigs ii mearii b^ton as she wiggles her*14-piec'e .orchestra through a medley.of .pop num-bers to start the entertainment. Then, -she introduces ♦ Jack Bepper, who strums -his ukulele and .sings a bit before engaglnjg' in '$ome clowning with his funny stoogC; Sammy jCianter. Pepper also gags ahd tells an aimusing story or'.two) He is'followed. by DorothV ; Crpoker, a. remarkable control , dancer '-who performs across the stage ,bn one leg. ■ .Helen Honan, on.ne;^, does imitations in passable fashion. After another orchestra number Leia Moore does her' novel 'Dari(?e of the-lLpvers' In 'one' with the; pit band providing, the musical accompaniment, v Going back to full utage, the show next offers the three Burke Sisters, Who warble through* a mike in front of ,thc orchestra. Then folR).ws>Mlss Hutton 'in pink pantaloon's, stopping the show -with her ;ftrncklng.' Pepper -works next 'with Terry Howai^r a diminutive miss .who ipipert'onates a , small child and lands solidly ■with comedy and singing, •the .orchestra winds up with a strong finish. ' '" " • Usual shorts along" with the feature; All for 60c top, but business badly off. uridoubtedly due to the wea'ther handicap. • Hcea. EMBASSY, N. Y. King George V and Induction of Edward VlII comprise the first and most heavily detailed Items on current bill. Fox opens with a biographical sketch from time of the late king's coronation until hl6 rfiign concluded, by far the most complete, Hearst and Pathe in successive order sti-ess the new ruler. -The libraries were ransacked for most of the compilation of foregoing three* reels and result is a pretty good pasting, job. Universal and Para^ mount went light In this division. Par-lendfj glimpses of -flags at half m?ist throughout nation. Universal ditto, at British Embassies and eulogizing by Cordell Hull, Senators King and McAdoo apd 'former Sm.^ ba.ssador Gerard, Graphic study in contemporary BiMHpK hlstofy. Pathe flashes of dog rescuing -CVsarr^jsMHe^w »3fii8M!iJK-.?*'^mr:*^ -.^^'trp^v^'. cat from pool-, servicing and sup(ContinUed on;pa?e 2fr)