Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-01-25 | Page 18 | Producer Sees Big Boom in Stage Shows

r sw s Ar q j 1 r I j J. J ri r. 1 I y i 1 i A s c y i it i iI I lJ l' l t v l J t J k kr l r lj j jy L I 1 da r f t I i I 1 fi 1 Vaudeville Has Started to 10 Boom Again Harry Howard left noted producer of stage shows tells Harry Ashton Salt La Lake e th theater manager while they examine a new spotlight I Producer Se Sees s Bg Big Boom In Stage Shows Take it f fro from r o m diminutive around world the the world Harry Howard Howard Howard How How- ard noted producer of road stage stages s shows vaudeville is definitely back and all aU because the present present present pres ent generation now v is s accustomed to seeing stage shows The year old New Yorker who has taken some Borne of or the outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing stage talent from the United States to many parts of the world before the war predicted predicted predicted pre pre- in Salt Lake Cit City Tuesday that the war will be the impetus for tor th the legitimate stage to have its greatest success in the postwar era Mr Howard brought a stage show direct from New York to open its first engagement at the Uptown theater beginning a na na- nationwide nationwide nationwide wide tion-wide tour The motion picture business has had Its ifs boom period now its it's the stage that is going to be re revive revived revived re- re vive he asserted The Th present generation is is tired of motion pic plc picture ture double bills When the lows began to fo run out of fairly good double features they began to give dishes away Now stage shows are fitting in nicely Mr Howard Is credited with originating the shorter stage show to fit in with the picture one-picture idea Traveling with him on this tour touris is Mrs Irs Howard