Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-27 | Page 19 | Movies, Radio Outquip Stage

MOVIES RADIO STAGE STACE B Best est Gags of Comedians Now Reserved for Celluloid and Ether I NEW YORK July 27 W Time JP-Time Time was vas when the theater laughed at athe atthe atthe t the he very best beat quips of the thespians Now td the funniest lines of the come- come d ians ate are reserved for lor motion pic- pic t urs and nd the radio If you If-you you stop to think to think about it where c cf can an the legitimate stage look to the co f future for Its comedians comedians- After years o ot f grinding Ed Wynn gain gained d his I g greatest success over the r radio di dio Edie Ed Ed- die ie Cantor as great a comedy star as the stage ever saw rolled up tremendous tree tre tre- tre r rt revenues in and he the t radio awaited him with even more golden opportunities Years of struggle brought Joe Penner Pen Pen- t ner ier up through the the- ranks of bur bur- l lesque esque Into a brief glimpse of the legitimate theater He had something some some- thing hing audiences from one coast to the theother other were ready were ready to hail bail just as they awaited the first appearances of Wynn Cantor Jesse Jessel and Jack Benny But Bu by the time Penner had served his apprenticeship the radio and screen creen were waiting to vie with the legitimate stage for tor his foolish query Do you wanna Vanna buy luy a duck There was no one to bi bid against the allurements allurements allurements allure allure- ments of ot 50 weeks on ont th the radio at 2000 a week There was no one to struggle against an offer of I for or a single picture in Hollywood Under present conditions the modera modern mod mod- ern era musical comedy stage d doesn't Understand understand understand un un- or comprehend these fig fig- ures tires Back in the days of Tex Rickard and his dollar multimillion prizefights prizefights prize prize- fights Flo and his hL million dollar Follies these salaries were in keeping with stage times But today today to to- day in order to gain gaina a recompense of ot 2000 a week you'd have to be a combination of Cantor Wynn Jessel Jesse and Benny That kind of money Just jus doesn't flow low through the theater turnstiles turn stiles any more It stands to reason then that every eye is turned toward either Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood or radio I The stage will be far lar richer when I its comedians come back into t their own